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TOMIE DE PAOLA

Meet the Authors and Illustrators, Volume I:60 Creators of Favorite Children's Books Talk About Their Work. Includes a chapter on Tomi de Paola.

Selected Works

The Art Lesson, Putnam, paper. 5.39-D

The Clown of God, Harcourt Brace, paper. 5.40-D

Pancakes for Breakfast, Harcourt Brace, paper. This wordless picture book follows a woman from the moment she gets out of bed, hungry for pancakes, until she finally eats them at a neighbor's house. We watch her put on her apron, begin mixing ingredients, gather eggs, milk the cow, churn the butter, go out and buy syrup, walk home with dreams of mixing and cooking and  eating the pancakes, and arrive back to find her cat and dog have spilled the milk and broken the eggs. As she thinks of the pancakes she dreamed of, flying away from the platter, she smells her neighbor cooking some and decides to go and visit. Have your child "read" you this story if he's not a reader yet, or write the story to go with the pictures if he's learning to put his thoughts on paper. 4.50-D

The Popcorn Book -- Out of Print

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