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Monday, October 17, 2011

Strega Nona


Bibliographic Information (APA): de Paola, T. (1975). Strega Nona. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall.
Brief Annotation: Strega Nona, the town witch, hires some assistance because she is getting old. Big Anthony attends to all the household chores. Big Anthony even agrees to never touch the old pasta pot, when Strega Nona asks. But when Strega Nona leaves for a while, Big Anthony lets curiosity get the best of him and he ends up eating his words.
Genre: Fiction
Grade Level: 1-3
Readers who will like this: Readers who like humor. Readers who like magic.
Response/Rating (1-4): 3. This was a clever story that has a good lesson about doing as you are told.
One question you would ask before a read aloud: Have you ever done anything anything you were told not to? What was the consequence? Did you learn a lesson?

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