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I loved both of these books. They were both really cute.
In Kitten's First Full Moon, the kitten thinks the moon is a bowl of milk and tries different ways to get to it.
In Strega Nona, good, honest help is hard to find, especially when you have a magic pot that will instantly make pasta 😸
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3⭐️ What a cute book! I can see my future self as Strega Nona … with lots of books, of course 😃

Strega Nona stamps acquired.

The US Postal Service just announced that in 2023 they will have a line for Forever Stamps featuring Tomie dePaola‘s art! 😍🤩😍🤩😍

I can‘t wait to buy them! #pastapotpastapot #makemesomepasta #stregaNona

I love this book! A classic folktale about a witch who leaves town and Big Anthony tries to cast one of her spells! Because he didn‘t watch her all the way, he ends up causing a big mess! Luckily Strega Nona comes back, and all that is damaged is Big Anthony‘s stomach from all the pasta he must eat/clean up!

3.5/5⭐ Sometimes you just need to read a kid's book about an old Italian witch beloved by her town.

Plot is nearly identical to that of The Magic Pot by Margie Bell. #bookspinbingo #doublespin

This Caldecott Medal award winner is a retelling of traditional literature about a witch who helps villagers with their troubles. This story makes for a great storytelling activity. UDL principles 3.1 and 3.3. ESOL strategies #11 and #24

One of my favorites hearing as a young kid! Love the story this teaches about helping others!

Strega Nona! This folktale CL Caldecott winner is about an old (witch) woman who can cure headaches, find love, etc. She helps the other people in her village. As she gets older, she hires a young man named Big Anthony to help her with her chores. https://www.britannica.com/art/childrens-literature This utilizes UDL: 2.4 Promote understanding across languages

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. 🌄

1. I love dePaola‘s work. ❤️
2. Added a biography of Frida Kahlo. 🎨
3. I want a collection of paintings by different artists over the years of the national parks in the United States. 🏜

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Strega Nona is a charming TL picture book about a village‘s beloved old “grandmother witch,” her magic pasta pot, and a naughty servant boy whose attempt to use magic goes very wrong! This book, charmingly written and Illustrated by Tomie dePaola, won a Caldecott honor. It can be part of an SEL unit about personal actions and consequences. https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/lesson-plans/teaching-content/strega-nona-le...
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This TL book is fun for RA with your students.
This link provides many different types of activities for your lesson to go with the classic tale of Strega Nona.
https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/blog-posts/nicole-kent/bring-magic-your-clas... Did you know that Strega means witch and Nona means grandma in Italian ? The UDL I chose is to promote understanding across languages, this book incorporates Italian culture and language!

This F Caldecott winner is a classic that I remember from Elementary school. Strega Nona (which means Grandma Witch) is a woman who uses potions and her “magic touch“ to help the people in her town in Calabria. Big Anthony is Strega Nona's assistant and although he means well, his inability to pay attention gets him into a huge mess. He breaks her one rule and touches the pasta pot, resulting in a gigantic pasta mess that only Strega Nona can fix.

In memory of iconic illustrator--writer of Children's Books #AcrossApril

Strega Nona was my introduction to the Newbery Honor award recipient. Many happy hours passed with his vibrant books in classrooms and the bed with my children.

His past interviews -
https://www.readingrockets.org/books/interviews/depaola

In creating this post I discovered that Tomie DePaola has just passed away and the world of children's literature has taken a huge loss. This book is one I remember from my own elementary years and I plan to continue teaching Tomie DePaola's works in my future classrooms. Strega Nona is the first in the series of Strega Nona tales. This is a TL Caldecott winning picture book about an elderly woman named Strega Nona who uses her magic to help

Sad news in the book world. CNN is reporting that Tomie dePaola died yesterday after complications from surgery after a fall in his barn which he used as a studio. Such a wonderful author and illustrator whose books many of us grew up with, books which are, of course, still staples in many libraries. Time to revisit some old favorites including the tagged book.

Ack 🍝🍝🍝🍝🍝 RIP Tomie
Strega: Such a wonderful character!!

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😭 https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/tomie-depaola-creator-of-gently-...

Mr. dePaola, you will be missed. But your stories will live on forever. Thank you for your stories, but especially Strega Nona. #tomiedepaola #streganona #pastapotpastapot #restinpeace

NO. #authorexistancefailure

The world of Children‘s Lit lost a wonderful man today📚😢 Tomie De Paola passed away today. My boys and I love his books! I still have all of his books! So heartbroken! 😭

“All right, Anthony, you wanted pasta from my magic pasta pot and I want to sleep in my little bed tonight. So start eating.”

Strega Nona has a good lesson for early childhood classrooms. I would use this book for when students are having trouble in the classroom with greed and taking.

Strega Nona Is a Traditional literature tale from the 70's that tells of a witch. The witch gets help from a boy and he watches her through her processes. Without giving too much away the story is about not letting greed take over you.

Strega Nona (Grandma Witch) written by: Tommie dePaola is a TL folktale about not allowing your greed and curiosity get the best of you. The UDL 1.3 regarding offering alternatives for visual information along with EL 4 for linking lesson topic to students' prior knowledge. It can be incorporated into many classroom lessons, which agrees with educational standards. #UCFLAE3414F19

The TL PB Strega Nona written and illustrated by Tomie dePaola, a Caldecott winner, is a perfect choice for PR in your PK-5th classes. Strega Nona is a nice, old witch with a love for pasta. She hires a boy named Big Anthony to help her with her chores around her house. Big Anthony observes her singing to the pasta when magically, all of a sudden, she has a large pot of pasta! This PB teaches the consequences of being dishonest. #UCFLAE3414F19

Strega Nona is a TL PB and Caldecott winner written and illustrated by Tomie DePaola. It is about a boy named big Anthony who is hired by Strega Nona to care for her house and garden. Strega Nona makes endless pasta with a special song to make it start and stop and one day Big Anthony discovers this trick which lands him in a pasta problem. By the end of the story Big Anthony learns about what honesty is. #ucflae3414f19

“All right, Anthony, you wanted pasta from my magic pasta pot and I want to sleep in my little bed tonight. So start eating.”

The illustrations were my favorite part.

Strega Nona by Tomie DePaola was one of my favorite books. This is a great read for younger children. It teaches children a life lesson of listening or things could turn out how you don‘t want them to. The pasta being the thing that could ruin the town was humorous. I would definitely read this to my classroom.

This TL book has won the Caldecott award for the amazing illustrations. This book is about Strega Nona who is the town witch that helps the community with spells, remedies, and food. In this story she hires the help of Big Anthony who loses Strega Nona‘s trust one day. This could be a RA book and the resource below can incorporate a class discussion about trust, punishment and authority. #ucflae3414su19

#WitchyReads Day 9: Tomie DePaola has created a brilliant series of delightful #WitchyReads with Strega Nona who is some kind of female witch doctor whom people in town run to if they need potions, cures, or simply comfort. Fats‘ full review here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-7LL

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Love de Paola's books and illustrations.

Strega Nona written and illustrated by Tomie dePaola is a Caldecott Honors book. This TL book is great for shared reading. This book is about an old women named Strega Nona, who is known for her magical powers. Strega Nona owns a magic pot that can cook pasta on its own. When she leaves town for a short while, the pot gets into the wrong hands and the town and it‘s people is faced with a problem.

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This book hits home to that half Italian part of me...love it!!! Strega Nona hires Big Anthony to help her but warns him not to touch her magic Pasta Pot. The first opportunity Big Anthony has to do so, he takes advantage of it and troubles ensue...

This TL book is one that I have read many times over the course of my life. This book tells the story of a grandma witch who‘s magical pot makes so much pasta that it nearly ruins an entire town! This book is so much fun and would make a great S book. I can‘t wait to use this one in my classroom. This would be great for all elementary ages. #ucflae3414sp18

#UCFLae3414F17 Strega Nona is a TL text that received a Caldecott seal, it was written by Tommie dePaola. Strega Nona is an old woman who helps heal the townspeople with potions and concoctions. She has a magical pot that makes her pasta when she sings a certain tune. Her helper, Big Anthony, tells the town about her pot and tries to impress the townspeople by using the pot by himself. He doesn‘t understand how it works and ends up covering the

Strega Nona is a magical woman, who in her old age enlists the help of a young man named Big Anthony to help her in anyway she needs. He is determined to prove that he is worth of helping her, so one day when Strega Nona goes out of town to visit a friend, he takes her magic pasta pot and causes a lot of trouble for the townspeople.

Strega Nona was written and illustrated by Tomie DePaola won The Caldecott award for the amazing TL book. It would be a great RA book for the classroom. https://www.teachervision.com/lesson/predicting-strega-nona is a link to some lesson plans for Strega Nona. UDL: 8.3- foster collaboration and community, EL: use preview/review activities. #UCFLAE3414F17

Strega Nona written and illustrated by Timor dePaola is a caldecott award winning, MF picture book about a grandma who is a witch (strega nona) and how her helper made the grandmas cauldron produce a ridiculous amount of pasta that it almost flooded the town. This would be a great CR book because it is the right length. UDL strategy 8.3 foster collaboration and community and EL strategy 2 promote cooperation, would be beneficial with

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A TL RA honor book, Streganona is about an old witch who hires a helper named Anthony. She goes on a trip and tell Anthony not to touch her magic pasta pot. He doesn't listen and almost covers the town in pasta! This book will teach students to listen to rules.
http://www.tomie.com/books/spotlight_on_strega.html UDL principles 2.1 &3.2 clarifying vocab & symbols and stress big ideas with EL 14&15 slower speech and stress key ideas #ucflae3414f17

Sorry I was gone for a minute- I had a baby!

Strega Nona written and illustrated by Tomie DePaola is a traditional literature about a grandma witch who's pasta overflows the town. It won a Caldecott Honor and is a great picture book for young readers. https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/blog-posts/nicole-kent/bring-magic-your-clas... this scholastic website provides creative activities for classrooms! #UCFLAE3414sp17

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