Christmas Remembered - Hardcover

DePaola, Tomie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399246223 ISBN 13: 9780399246227

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, 2006

Synopsis

In this unique collection, Tomie dePaola shares his love of Christmas and all the delightful twists his life has taken. Christmas Remembered is a delightful window into the life of one of the great American children?s book author/ artists.

?Tomie dePaola is one of my favorite illustrators....He is also a writer of considerable charm, who can evoke a remembered world of his childhood with great vividness.??Philip Pullman, author of His Dark Materials Trilogy

?This book is like Christmas itself?full of surprises and sensory delights . . . for young and old alike.??Kathleen Norris, author of The Cloister Walk

About this title

About the Author:

The winner of both a Caldecott and Newbery Honor, Tomie dePaola is the author/artist of more than two hundred books for young readers. He lives in New London, New Hampshire.

From Booklist:

With many Christmas picture books to his credit, dePaola now regales readers with 15 personal tales of Christmases past. The first chapters vividly recall family and community celebrations of the holidays, followed by memories of Christmas as a high-school and college student and as a novice at a Vermont priory. The last three selections describe Christmases as an adult celebrated in San Francisco, New York City, and New Hampshire. Brightening the pages are illustrations in varied styles and media, from an intriguing portrait of dePaola's Italian grandmother to decorative paper collages to iconic paintings of great stillness and beauty. The jacket flap calls this dePaola's "first book for all ages," and, in truth, it probably will appeal to adults as much as children. Written with dialogue and humor as well as reflection, the episodic stories may interest children who enjoyed dePaola's 26 Fairmont Avenue series. Teachers and librarians on the lookout for books of memoirs will want to make a note of this one. Carolyn Phelan
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About this edition

• Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0399246223
• ISBN 13: 9780399246227
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 112
• Illustrator: DePaola Tomie