Authors

Tomie dePaola

Tomie dePaola is a children’s book icon, having published more than 260 titles over the past 50 years. His work has sold nearly 25 million copies and been published in more than 15 countries. DePaola is also a longstanding award-winner; he has received the Caldecott Honor, the Newbery Honor, the James Smithson Medal, the Catholic Library Association’s Regina Medal, and was the US nominee in illustration for the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1990. He lives and works out of his New Hampshire home.