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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Puffin Books
Published: Sep 2000
Genre: Children & Young Adults Fiction - Humorous Stories
Retail Price: $8.99
Ages: 05 - 09 Pages: 32
Tomie dePaola serves as 'biographer' to his delightful Italian sorceress, Strega Nona, in this beautifully drawn prequel. The tale begins with little Nona's birth on a dark and stormy night, and ends where the original Strega Nona picks up-with Strega Nona taking on the bumbling, knock-kneed Big Anthony as an apprentice. This winsome story is illustrated throughout with Tomie dePaola's warm and sunny watercolors!
'dePaola does a splendid job of working this sparkling tale into the Strega Nona canon.' -Publishers Weekly