![]() ![]() ![]() Knowing that he pays little attention, Strega Nona informs Big Anthony of his duties carefully and clearly, adding only one restriction - never to touch her magic pasta pot. She helps her fellow villagers with their troubles, most notably by curing headaches, helping single women find husbands, and ridding people of warts.īecause she is getting old, Strega Nona employs the assistance of a young man named Big Anthony to do the household chores. She is a sort of wise Woman and witch doctor noted throughout her home village for her numerous successful remedies. ![]() Set in Calabria, in southern Italy, the book focuses on the exploits of Strega Nona. ![]() It was one of the "Top 100 Picture Books" of all time in a 2012 poll by School Library Journal. The book, which is likely dePaola's best-known work, was published in 1975 and won a Caldecott Honor in 1976. Big Anthony causes the title character's magic pasta pot to create so much pasta that it nearly floods and buries a town. It concerns Strega Nona (resembling what would be "Grandma Witch" in Italian, although this would actually be "Nonna Strega", with the two words inverted and the first one spelled with a double n) and her helper, Big Anthony. If considered as a folktale, the story is Aarne-Thompson type 565, the Magic Mill. Strega Nona is a children's picturebook written and illustrated by Tomie dePaola. Cover with correct "an original tale." subtitle ![]()
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