Grandma Witch's Magic Pasta Pot Produces Plenty!

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	• Strega Nona Tomie dePaola Editorial Everest, 1999 - 32 pages average customer review:based on 39 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Caldecott Honor Book

Strega Nona went to the mountain to see her friend and left Anthony taking care of everything. She also told him to never touch the pot! Did he listen?
I thought this was a real good book. The book has a porpose and teaches that you should listen to the people who know best. This book deserved the caldecott award.

Strega Nona

Strega Nona is very interesting kids book about an old witch who needed help. One day a guy named Anthony came along and needed money so he asked Nona if she had any choirs to do around the house. Nona gave many choirs for Anthony to do but she always warned him to never go anywhere near the magical pot.Do you think that Anthony listened to Nona? I really liked this book and I really recomend this book to everybody because Anthony learns a very important lesson that maybe some people haven't learned.

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Grandma Witch's Magic Pasta Pot Produces Plenty!

Researchers constantly find that reading to children is valuable in a variety of ways, not least of which are instilling a love of reading and improved reading skills. With better parent-child bonding from reading, your child will also be more emotionally secure and able to relate better to others. Intellectual performance will expand as well. Spending time together watching television fails as a substitute.

To help other parents apply this advice, as a parent of four I consulted an expert, our youngest child, and asked her to share with me her favorite books that were read to her as a young child. Strega Nona was one of her picks.

This is an engaging tale of an elderly woman everyone called Grandma Witch, or Strega Nona. She helped everyone with their troubles, even the priest and the sisters in the convent. She could cure headaches, help girls get husbands, and get rid of warts.

Because she was old, she hired Big Anthony to help her with the indoor and outdoor chores. Big Anthony was told not to touch the pasta pot, and he agreed. But one day he saw that she could turn it into a magic pasta pot by singing to it. Unfortunately, Big Anthony did not see all of the magic spell she used.

One day when Strega Nona went to visit her friend Strega Amelia, Big Anthony saw his chance!

Using the magic pasta pot by invoking the magic words, soon Big Anthony has enough pasta for everyone in town. People are very impressed and eat with him. Then he says the magic words to make it stop, and it continues (because he hadn't seen Strega Nona blow three kisses as part of the spell). Soon the pasta is coming out the door and threatens the town!

Fortunately, Strega Nona returns and saves the day. But she wants to sleep in her bed that night. So she tells Big Anthony to start eating pasta to make room for her!

The illustrations are very colorful and beautiful to behold. They are in a simple style that is appealing to young children. I would have enjoyed the book personally, just for the illustrations.

The story is told in a friendly, humorous way rather than a frightening way. You can compare this story to Walt Disney's The Sorcerer's Apprentice and this one is definitely lighter and more appealing for young children.

My daughter loved to read this story to me, as well as having me read it to her. She loved to laugh at the sight of all that pasta!

The story has won a Caldecott award for outstanding illustrations, which is well deserved.

Overcome your stalled thinking that children don't enjoy stories about witches! In fact, love of this book may be behind the interest in Harry Potter!

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De Paola's Best

Strega Nona (Grandma Witch) is about the beloved character with the same name. She lives in a small town in Italy, where she cures sickness and warts. When she hires Big Anthony to help her, trouble starts. When Anthony sees her through the window making pasta by chanting a few words, he tries while she is on a trip to see a friend. Kids will enjoy the humorous ending and classic illustrations. (...)

STREGA NONA

THE BOOK OF STREGA NONA WAS REALLY GOOD, BECAUSE IT TALKEED ABOUT AN OLD WITCH THAT NEEDED HELP, SO A GUY NAMED ANTHONY WAS HER NEW HELPER.BUT ONE OF THE THINGS SHE TOLD HIM WAS NOT TO TOUCH THE PASTA POT, BUT DO YOU THINK HE DID AS WHAT HE WAS TOLD? I REALLY LIKED THIS BOOK BECAUSE IT TEACHES YOU THAT YOU SHOULD ALWAYS LISTEN TO PEOPLE BECAUSE YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT CAN HAPPEN.
ALSO THE WAY IT WAS WRITEEN WAS REALLY EASY FOR A CHILD TO UNDERSTAND.

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