![]() ![]() In 2000, he won a Newbery Honor for his book 26 Fairmount Avenue, which was one of his more autobiographical projects that recounted his early childhood. ![]() The Associated Press has reported that he died at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., from complications from surgery that followed a bad fall last week.ĭePaola's work stretched over many realms of his imagination, from a magical faux-folk tale centered on a kindly and crafty Calabrian grandmother - Strega Nona, which won the Caldecott Honor Award in 1976 - to retelling the inspiring Comanche story of The Legend of the Bluebonnet. His death was announced, without details, on social media by his assistant, Bob Hechtel. The beloved children's author and illustrator Tomie dePaola, whose imaginative and warm-hearted work crossed generations and continents, died Monday at age 85. Author Tomie dePaola, at a book signing in New York City in 2008. ![]()
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