Tomie DePaola

A family gets ready for Halloween.

Having learned to be creative in drawing pictures at home, young Tommy is dismayed when he goes to school and finds the art lesson there much more regimented.

Big Anthony, well-meaning but inattentive, journeys around Italy causing one problem after another, before meeting Strega Nona.

Morgie, Moffie, and their kindergarten friends squander their recess time trying to decide how to play Hide-and-Seek.

Little Gopher follows his destiny, as revealed in a Dream-Vision, of becoming an artist for his people and eventually is able to bring the colors of the sunset down to the earth.

A retelling of the Comanche Indian legend of how a little girl's sacrifice brought the flower called bluebonnet to Texas.

While his wife is away, a lazy man relies on a Pooka to clean up the messes that he and his friends make.

From her knowledge of when to change a diaper and how to make Popsicles to her skills in driving a delivery truck and dancing the polka, a child sings the praises of a special family member. Inspired by the accomplishments and behavior of the author's own mother.

When a new girl in the Barkers' class, Carole Anne, acts like a bully, the students try talking to her and ignoring her until Morgie finally discovers what is wrong and finds a way to fix it.

Morgie accuses his best friend of taking his favorite dinosaur toy without asking, and then he finds that he must apologize.