Strega Nona Takes a Vacation (Picture Puffins) | 
|  | | | Title: | Strega Nona Takes a Vacation (Picture Puffins) | | Author: | Tomie dePaola (Illustrator) | | Publisher: | Puffin | | Type: | Book / Paperback | | Publication Date: | 12 May, 2003 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0142500763 / 9780142500767 | | List Price: | $5.99 | | Amazon Price: | $5.99 | |
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Lately Strega Nona has been distracted-she even gave Signore Mayor the wrong remedy for his headache. One night Nona has a dream about her Grandma Concetta, who has been in heaven for many years, and her little house at the seashore. Nona decides that she will take a vacation there. While Strega Nona is away, Bambolona will do the daily remedies and Big Anthony will do the chores. With these two left in charge, what could possibly go wrong?
Amazon.com Review
After dreaming about her childhood by the seashore with her beloved grandmother, Strega Nona is distracted, wondering what it could mean. But when she starts giving the villagers the wrong remedies for their stomachaches and headaches, she realizes the answer: it's time for a vacation. Placing her helpers, Bambolona and Big Anthony, in charge of the chores and daily remedies, Strega Nona sets off, with just one warning: "Don't touch the pasta pot!" (Everyone remembers when Big Anthony flooded the village with pasta.) All goes smoothly on Strega Nona's long-awaited holiday--until she sends some gifts home to her children. What harm can it do, Bambolona wonders, if she switches Big Anthony's candy for her own bubble bath. The whole village will soon find out! Award-winning author and illustrator Tomie dePaola brings back his most beloved character in this charming tale of bumbling innocents and happy memories revisited. As in Strega Nona: Her Story, Strega Nona Meets Her Match, and Big Anthony: His Story, this venerable folk healer and her friends, in their idyllic Mediterranean setting, appeal to readers of all ages. (Ages 4 to 7) --Emilie Coulter
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Customer Reviews:
• Favorite In The Strega Nona Series 08 January, 2008
My 5 1/2 yr. old daughter was introduced to the "Strega Nona" series in kindergarten this year. This is by far her favorite one! We bought them all for her for x-mas so that mom and dad and grammy and grampy could read them too. Very fun, as with many Tomie Depaola books. These are special for us because we have an italian Nona!!!
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1EX3VSXD66SBH
• Paradise Found 04 December, 2000
Sometimes the best remedy for stress is to get away by yourself -perhaps even to a place from your youth. This is what happens when Stega Nona finds herself prescribing mixed-up conconctions for the villagers in her neighborhood. Admitting she needs a well-deserved vacation can be a tough decision, but once Strega Nona goes back to her Grandmother Concetta's little house by the seashore she relaxes and learns a little time away is sometimes necessary for one's business.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1K1JW1C5CUSUZ
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