Tomie DePaola Quotes

#1. I'am looking for the book "Pancakes for Breakfast" by Tomie dePaola to read online. Can you help me with this?

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#2. I remember feeling guilty that I had a good childhood. I thought everybody who is famous has to have a desperate childhood and work his way out of it, but I had a great one.

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#3. In a town in Calabria, a long time ago, there lived an old lady everyone called Strega Nona, which meant "Grandma Witch".

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#4. I try to be as clear and simple as I can be in my illustrations so that the child can tell what is going on and what the emotions are.

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#5. A picture book is a small door to the enormous world of the visual arts, and they're often the first art a young person sees.

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#6. Most people don't realize the many steps that a pop-up goes through. There are a variety of "Dummies" (the sketch phase of the book). Then finally the pencil "dummy", then the finished art which is like painting pieces of a jig saw puzzle.

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#7. Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.

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