Strega Nona: Her Story, Paperback/Tomie dePaola

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