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Country
  
United States

Media type
  
Print (Paperback)

ISBN
  
0-399-23246-X

Originally published
  
5 April 1999

Genre
  
Child

Illustrator
  
Tomie dePaola

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Language
  
English

Pages
  
64 p

OCLC
  
38550527

Author
  
Tomie dePaola

Followed by
  
Here We All Are

Awards
  
John Newbery Medal

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Similar
  
Works by Tomie dePaola, 26 Fairmount Avenue -(series) books, John Newbery Medal winners

26 Fairmount Avenue (ISBN 0-399-23246-X) is a 1999 children's novel by Tomie dePaola that won a Newbery Honor. dePaolo was also awarded the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for his "substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children."

Contents

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Plot

The book deals with the early life of Tomie dePaola. He has just moved to a new house in Connecticut and the 1938 hurricane has just hit. Tomie expresses unhappiness for seeing Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in the theatres.

Continuity

Characters such as Nana Upstairs and Nana Downstairs, introduced in other dePaola books, are present in this book.

Books in this series

  • 26 Fairmount Avenue (Newbery Honor Book, 2000)
  • Here We All Are
  • On My Way.
  • What a Year!
  • Things Will Never be the Same (The War Years)
  • I'm Still Scared (The War Years)
  • Why? (The War Years)
  • For the Duration (The War Years)

    • References

    26 Fairmount Avenue Wikipedia
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