Tomie De Paola

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Formats

Description

When Lucida is unable to finish her gift for the Baby Jesus in time for the Christmas procession, a miracle enables her to offer the beautiful flower we now call the poinsettia.

2) Jamie O'Rourke and the big potato: an Irish folktale

Author

Language

English

Formats

Description

The laziest man in all of Ireland catches a leprechaun, who offers a potato seed instead of a pot of gold for his freedom.

3) 26 Fairmount Avenue

Author

Series

26 Fairmount Avenue

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Formats

Description

Children's author-illustrator Tomie De Paola describes his experiences at home and in school when he was a boy.

4) Why?: the war years

Author

Series

26 Fairmount Avenue

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Formats

Description

The latest addition to the Newbery Honor award-winning 26 Fairmount Avenue series.

World War II is raging in Europe, and Tomie finds that life has changed in many ways. Now he has to wear an extra sweater to school because they?re trying to conserve coal. Then tragedy brings the war home to the dePaola family, and all Tomie can do is ask ?Why?? Just as he did in I?m Still Scared, the first installment of The War Years, Tomie dePaola touchingly

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5) I'm still scared

Author

Series

26 Fairmount Avenue

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Formats

Description

The author recalls his fears as a first-grader during the initial days of World War II, the attack on Pearl Harbor, air raid drills, and blackouts, and the reassurance he received from his parents.

6) The knight and the dragon

Author

Publisher

Putnam

Pub. Date

c1980

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

A knight who has never fought a dragon and an equally inexperienced dragon prepare to meet each other in battle.

7) Patrick: patron saint of Ireland

Author

Publisher

Holiday House

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook

Description

Relates the life and legends of Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland.

8) An early American Christmas

Author

Publisher

Holiday House

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook

Description

The inhabitants of a New England village never make much fuss about Christmas until a new family moves in and celebrates the holiday in a special way.

9) The legend of Old Befana: an Italian Christmas story

Author

Publisher

Harcourt Brace Jovanich

Pub. Date

c1980

Edition

1st ed.

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

Because Befana's household chores kept her from finding the Baby King, she searches to this day, leaving gifts for children on the Feast of the Three Kings.

10) Guess who's coming to Santa's for dinner?

Author

Publisher

Putnam's

Pub. Date

2004

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

A houseful of relatives turns "Mrs. C." and Santa's Christmas into a string of surprises, from the arrival of a pet polar bear to Cousin James B.'s flaming plum pudding.

11) What a year

Author

Series

26 Fairmount Avenue book

Publisher

Puffin Books

Pub. Date

2003

Language

English

Description

Tomie has an eventful first grade year with his sixth birthday party, his first Halloween trick-or-treating followed by Thanksgiving, his first Christmas pageant, and a late night New Year's celebration.

12) The story of the Three Wise Kings

Author

Publisher

Putnam

Pub. Date

c1983

Language

English

Description

Three wise men of the East, having seen a new star symbolizing the birth of a great king, follow the star to Bethlehem where they present gifts to the newborn Jesus.

13) Jingle, the Christmas clown

Author

Publisher

Putnam's

Pub. Date

c1992

Language

English

Description

Staying behind when their circus moves on, a young clown and a troupe of baby animals put on a special Christmas Eve show for an Italian village too poor to celebrate the holiday.

14) On my way

Author

Series

26 Fairmount Avenue book

Publisher

Puffin Books

Pub. Date

2002, c2001

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

A memoir in which children's author Tomie De Paola recalls his baby sister's frightening bout with pneumonia, and the exciting events of the summer between kindergarten and first grade.

15) Strega Nona's magic lessons

Author

Publisher

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

Pub. Date

c1982

Edition

1st ed.

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

Big Anthony disguises himself as a girl in order to take magic lessons from Strega Nona.

16) The night of Las Posadas

Author

Series

Picture puffins

Publisher

Puffin Books

Pub. Date

2001

Language

English

Description

At the annual celebration of Las Posadas in old Santa Fe, the husband and wife slated to play Mary and Joseph are delayed by car trouble, but a mysterious couple seems perfect for the part.

17) La abuelita de arriba y la abuelita de abajo

Author

Publisher

Norma Ediciones

Pub. Date

2003

Edition

1a ed. SEP / Norma Ediciones

Language

Español

Description

Four-year-old Tomás enjoys his relationship with both his grandmother and great-grandmother, but eventually learns to face their inevitable death.

18) The legend of the Indian paintbrush

Author

DEPAOLA, TOMIE

Publisher

Scholastic

Pub. Date

1991

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description