Strega Nona Her Story

Strega Nona and her best friend, Amelia, decide to become stregas as little girls. They train with Strega Nona’s grandmother and continue on to the university, which Amelia loves, but Nona hates and leaves. Nona feels that she’s not really a strega if she hasn’t studied there, but her

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grandmother says there are many ways to get an education, and leaves her everything when she retires.

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This is a story about an Italian girl named Nona with a grandmother who teaches her how to be a "Strega." A Strega does magic and gives people advice. The grandmother teaches Nona many valuble things in order to become a Strega and eventually leaves her business in Nona's hands. Nona carries the

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business on and is loved by everyone in the town. When she gets old, she also hands the business down to someone else.

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A folktale devoted to the story of Tomie dePaola's character Strega Nona and her journey to become a strega or witch.

This book is a great book to use to teach students about magic and fiction. The author provides the readers with an exciting reading experience as things begin to go wrong at Strega Nona's house. This book could also be used to prompt students to write creatively.

A girl named Nona learns the art of magic from her grandmother. This book is a great insight into the author/illustrator's relationship with his own grandmother, with whom he was very close.

Beautiful pictures, cute story, but a little slow.

In this book of the "Strega Nona" series, we finally learn more about how Strega Nona came to be. We are introduced to another character, Grandma Concetta, who spent most of her life teaching Strega Nona her ways. This is the most famous character of Tomie dePaola's and I loved being able to see a

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piece of the story from Strega Nona's point of view.

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The early days of Strega Nona definitely do not have the fairytale resonance of "bubble, bubble pasta pot" but for kids who love the book this makes it a larger world and lets them explore it in their brains and draw connections, so maybe it's the legendarium to Strega Nona's legend.

Grandma Concetta heals everyone with her remedies and advice, and when she retires, she leaves Nona her magic pasta pot with its secret ingredient.

This is the adorable tale of how Nona was born and became a Strega (witch) What charms about the stories are the village (Calabria - where my Nona came from) and the fact that her Grandmother was Concetta - I had an Aunt Concetta. My heart warms with these stories.

I have always loved this story and am thrilled that she was featured on a Forever Stamp by the USPS.