Tomie DePaola Quotes & Sayings

I'am looking for the book "Pancakes for Breakfast" by Tomie dePaola to read online. Can you help me with this? — Tomie DePaola

Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything. — Tomie DePaola

A picture book is a small door to the enormous world of the visual arts, and they're often the first art a young person sees. — Tomie DePaola

In a town in Calabria, a long time ago, there lived an old lady everyone called Strega Nona, which meant "Grandma Witch". — Tomie DePaola

Most people don't realize the many steps that a pop-up goes through. There are a variety of "Dummies" (the sketch phase of the book). Then finally the pencil "dummy", then the finished art which is like painting pieces of a jig saw puzzle. — Tomie DePaola

I remember feeling guilty that I had a good childhood. I thought everybody who is famous has to have a desperate childhood and work his way out of it, but I had a great one. — Tomie DePaola

I try to be as clear and simple as I can be in my illustrations so that the child can tell what is going on and what the emotions are. — Tomie DePaola