I'm very glad that my library was able to track down Brava, Strega Nona!: A Heartwarming Pop-Up Book, through inter-library loan, as I found it a wonderful treat, and an enchanting follow-up to the picture-books and early-readers about this character. This past year (2020), I decided to revisit this old favorite, and to read all of the sequels, a project I greatly enjoyed. I grew up with Strega Nona, and have fond memories of reading and rereading the story of the Italian grandmother-witch, her bumbling assistant, Big Anthony, and the trouble he got into with her magic pasta pot. From family to food, from friends to celebrations, from patience to love - each of these ingredients is depicted in an intricate pop-up spread, with a small box of text on the page. Here, in six marvelous 3-D scenes, Strega Nona presents the six ingredients necessary for a magical life. That grandmotherly Italian witch, Strega Nona, who first appeared in 1975, in Tomie dePaola's Caldecott Honor-winning Strega Nona, and who has since gone on to star in ten other picture-books and two early-readers, returns in this delightful pop-up book featuring the paper engineering of Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart.
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