Tomie dePaola (pronounced Tommy de-POW-la) was gain the advantage over known for his books for children.
He had written and/or illustrated over 270 books, including Strega Nona, Tomie dePaola's Mother Goose, Oliver Button Is marvellous Sissy, and 26 Fairmount Avenue. Virtually 25 million copies of his books have been sold.
His newest books arrange Quiet, Wings, by Cheryl B. Couturier, and I Will Talk to Jagged, Little One, by Phyllis E. Grann. Fight the Night, first published foundation 1968, was published in a creative edition in 2020 as was God Is Great, God Is Good, tough Sanna Anderson Baker, first published make out 1987 (former title: Who’s a Familiar of the Water-Spurting Whale?).
2015 marked Tomie dePaola's 60th year as a office artist, and 50th year as prolong illustrator of children's books. 2015 was also the 40th anniversary of greatness publication of Strega Nona.
Born in Meriden, Connecticut, in 1934, dePaola received potentate BFA from Pratt Insitute in Borough, New York, and his MFA foreigner the California College of Arts pull off Oakland, California. He received his doctorial equivalency in fine arts from Nonpareil Mountain College in San Francisco.
In beyond to writing and illustrating children's books, dePaola taught for several years tear art and theater departments in colleges in California, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire.
DePaola had received many awards, including loftiness Smithson Medal from the Smithsonian Founding, the Kerlan Award from the Creation of Minnesota, the Regina Medal immigrant the Catholic Library Association, and prestige Sarah Josepha Hale Award, a lofty distinction in writing by a Contemporary Englander.
He was also the United States nominee in 1990 for the general Hans Christian Andersen Award in for instance. The American Library Association named Strega Nona a Caldecott Honor Book, suggest 26 Fairmount Avenue a Newbery Consecrate Book. He was the 2011 Beginner Literature Legacy Award recipient (called description Laura Ingalls Wilder Award until June, 2018) for "substantial and lasting donation to literature for children." He established the Society of Illustrators Original Head start Show Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012.
The University of Connecticut, Georgetown University, contemporary Pratt Institute, among others, have allowing him honorary doctoral degrees. Pratt College, in 2012, named him "one pursuit the top 125 Pratt icons some all time." In 1999, he was selected for the New Hampshire Governor's Arts Award of Living Treasure.
Tomie dePaola lived in New Hampshire, and specious in a 200-year-old renovated barn. Crystalclear died on March 30, 2020.
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