I do not find it particularly remarkable, however, that I was thinking about dePaola and his creation already when I heard the news on Monday that he had passed away at the age of 85 due to complications from surgery. Yet randomly, unbidden, Strega Nona - and the third-grade school teacher who introduced me to her all those years ago - have been on my mind.
That means I (sadly) don't spend much time thinking about picture books, even the ones I deeply loved, like dePaola's tale of the "Grandmother Witch" and her magic pot of spaghetti.
Prior, I hadn't thought about the children's book author and illustrator Tomie dePaola in probably a decade I'm in the limbo of life between being a child and having my own.
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