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Tony's Bread: An Italian Folktale
Tony dreams that one day he'll become the most famous baker in northern Italy. His poor daughter Serafina wants to be allowed to marry. Each of their dreams seems far away until Angelo, a rich young nobleman from Milan, appears and devises a way to make everyone's dreams come true. Full color.
Library Binding, 32 pages
Published
April 16th 1996
by Turtleback Books
(first published 1989)
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dePaola, Tomie. (1989). Tony’s Bread. New York, NY: G.P. Putnam’s Sons.
Annotation: For preschoolers to second grade. Tomie dePaola’s illustrations live up to his reputation of creating cozy warm characters and settings to supplement beautiful stories. This book is an Italian Folktale that tells the story of the creation of panettone, Italian bread. A baker, Tony, and his daughter, Serafina, are given the opportunity to move to Milano if Tony allows Angelo, a rich man, marry his daughter. Angelo...more
Annotation: For preschoolers to second grade. Tomie dePaola’s illustrations live up to his reputation of creating cozy warm characters and settings to supplement beautiful stories. This book is an Italian Folktale that tells the story of the creation of panettone, Italian bread. A baker, Tony, and his daughter, Serafina, are given the opportunity to move to Milano if Tony allows Angelo, a rich man, marry his daughter. Angelo...more
Tony’s Bread
K-4th grade
Tomie dePaolas illustrations are fun and colorful. They are simple and cartoonish in nature. The pictures are each framed and fill the pages and bring the story to life. The text is in English and incorporates Italian words and their meanings as well. The text is also used as part of the illustrations in letters that Angelo wrote to Signore Baker and Bella. This book may be appealing to children because it has a happy ending and everyone gets what they want.
Language Arts/S...more
K-4th grade
Tomie dePaolas illustrations are fun and colorful. They are simple and cartoonish in nature. The pictures are each framed and fill the pages and bring the story to life. The text is in English and incorporates Italian words and their meanings as well. The text is also used as part of the illustrations in letters that Angelo wrote to Signore Baker and Bella. This book may be appealing to children because it has a happy ending and everyone gets what they want.
Language Arts/S...more
My 4 yr old thoroughly enjoyed this book. Since he is of Italian heritage, it had more meaning for me, since he is very young. The illustrations were very nice, and the story line lively and fun. I will definitely purchase this book for my child. I love folktales to begin with, this was a sweet story and decided to make panettone in a flowerpot for Christmas this yr. Recipe at this site to make your own! http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/panetton...
I read this tale in Tommie's Big Book of Folktales. It wasn't as good as I thought it would turn out to be unfortunately. It was a story about a king and his protection and love for his precious daughter Angelina. Everyone in the town knows that the kings daughter is off limits and that he believes no man will ever be good enough for her. Little does the king know there is a very determined young gentleman ready to fight for the women he loves.
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Tomie dePaola has taken full advantage of the folktale style in this picture book, telling a story that is both interesting and culturally informative. Tony's Bread would be a perfect book to use in an elementary school unit about countries outside the U.S., to give a general sense of the feel behind Italian stories about the origin of favorite foods. I would give one and a half stars to this book.
This was a fairly entertaining read. There were a couple of parts I found a little ridiculous, but they didn't bother me too much. I also thought the story was a bit random, but still enjoyable. And of course, I always like Tomie's illustrations. I'd recommend, especially if you like reading Italian folklore.
*Taken from my book reviews blog: http://reviewsatmse.blogspot.com/2011...
*Taken from my book reviews blog: http://reviewsatmse.blogspot.com/2011...
One of my son's favourites, we recently refound it, and I'm having to re read it all over again, trying to recall my pronounciation of the italian words.
I liked this book. It is a great lesson to use for Social Studies about Tony that wants to be the best baker someday. It is an Italian folktale.
Buona Lettura, yes this is definately buona lettura.
This title was readily accessible to me and hey its Tomie, so i have had it home with me several weeks. What a sweet surprise for me that it turned out to be an Italian folktale. It was charming and Italian--food as well as romance.
amd thanks Tomie for teaching me that biscotti means cookie.
According to the author's note Tomie was the creative director of Whitebird books for G. C. Putumn which was publishing international folktales, so now I am...more
This title was readily accessible to me and hey its Tomie, so i have had it home with me several weeks. What a sweet surprise for me that it turned out to be an Italian folktale. It was charming and Italian--food as well as romance.
amd thanks Tomie for teaching me that biscotti means cookie.
According to the author's note Tomie was the creative director of Whitebird books for G. C. Putumn which was publishing international folktales, so now I am...more
Apr 25, 2011
Katharine
rated it
4 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
holidays,
seasons-winter
A unique and fun story. I'm putting this one on the "to buy" list for Christmas.
May be able to use this when discussing producers for a social studies unit.
Story about how the Italian bread panettonne was first created.
Cute story. Of course I like most of dePaola's books.
I didn't understand. S.
DePaola is one of this parent's favorite authors. The tale kept all of us interested. Repeated readings bring new details in the illustrations to everyone's attention.
Jul 25, 2010
Cheryl/Aradanryl
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Shelves:
ar_4-6,
d_ab,
christmas,
holiday,
main-character-adult-male,
baking,
panettonne,
childrens-literature,
picture-book
Charming rendition of a folk tale about the origin of panettonne, the marvelous Italian Christmas bread. Lovely illustrations too.
Mar 14, 2013
Susan Aebel
marked it as to-read
Feb 21, 2013
Nikisha Hendricks
marked it as to-read
Feb 07, 2013
Zoey Renée
marked it as to-read
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Tomie dePaola (pronounced Tommy da-POW-la) is best known for his books for children.
He's been published for 40 years and has written and/or illustrated over 200 books, including 26 Fairmount Avenue, Strega Nona, and Meet the Barkers.
Tomie dePaola and his work have been recognized with the Caldecott Honor Award, the Newbery Honor Award and the New Hampshire Governor's Arts Award of Living Treasure....more
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He's been published for 40 years and has written and/or illustrated over 200 books, including 26 Fairmount Avenue, Strega Nona, and Meet the Barkers.
Tomie dePaola and his work have been recognized with the Caldecott Honor Award, the Newbery Honor Award and the New Hampshire Governor's Arts Award of Living Treasure....more
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