![]() ![]() Tomie was God’s clown and he gave God everything he had– to our great benefit, that came in the form of beautiful stories and illustrations. It recounts, in distinctively dePaola-ized fashion, a version of the story that motivated the exhibition. The text was his 1978 The Clown of God, which after the ten award-winning Strega Nona volumes may be his most beloved children’s book. Simcha Fisher has written about it and I tear up when I read the book. As I reflect on the joy and the beauty that Tomie created and gave to all of us, this is what I think of. Tomie dePaola reads The Clown of God, as Jewell Stoddard watches. Tomie also wrote a beautiful story called The Clown of God about giving that one thing you have to God. Clown of God - Tomie dePaola - Google Books In this retelling of the old French legend, a juggler offers to the Christ Child the only Christmas gift he has. That is but one good memory in a sea of many I have with the works of Tomie dePaola. Johanna was a notoriously hard grader and I was expecting to be picked apart. The Clown of God is about an orphan named Giovanni who can juggle. The activities we did and books we read are included in Kindergarten: Fall Semester.The following is a summary of our week. ![]() We used Five in a Row, along with other materials, for a 4-day school week. The day of, I was the first to present and did as perfectly as I could hope. Our story for the week was The Clown of God by Tomie dePaola. I practiced telling this story for weeks– perfecting my pauses and inflections and voice. Strega Nona was a story I knew very well and I related it to reconciliation. The assignment was to pick a short story that could relate to an aspect of the Faith and tell it to the class without much movement or flamboyancy. I once retold the story of Strega Nona in a catechetics class at Franciscan University with Sr. ![]()
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