Pick Up Tonys Bread: An Italian Folktale Envisioned By Tomie DePaola Conveyed In PDF

the tradition of Strega Nona, Tony's Bread tells the story of Tony and Serafina, both having dreams and both being realized, Tony wants to be the most wellknown bakery in Milano, His daughter Serafina sits in her room, crying, because Tony does not think any young man is good enough for her and he refuses all courting appeals, All this changes when the young nobleman, Antony, sees Serafina, falls in love with her and devises a plan to marry Serafina by giving Tony his dream to become the most wellknown baker in all of Milano.
I thought it was kind of ridiculous how quickly the two main characters fell in love, however I understand why it was, It was a “love at first sight” moment, I like how hard the prince worked to make everyones dream to come true, I thought it was funny that the baker used a flower pot to cook bread, I wonder if that is really possible,

Grade: PreK
Genre: traditional literature Tonys Bread

Kth grade

Tomie dePaolas illustrations are fun and colorful, They are simple and cartoonish in nature, The pictures are each framed and fill the pages and bring the story to life, The text is in English and incorporates Italian words and their meanings as well, The text is also used as part of the illustrations in letters that Angelo wrote to Signore Baker and Bella, This book may be appealing to children because it has a happy ending and everyone gets what they want,

Language Arts/Science

Science Example: Students can add different ingredients to a bread mixture and cook the bread in various containers, The use of yeast or lack of it could be an interesting experiment as well,
This story is wellpaced and funny, with great illustrations, A fictional origin story of the wonderful Milanese specialty, Panettone! :

Tony's fat daughter, Serafina, is shut away and lonely, But Angelo falls in love with her at first sight, I found this refreshing a large girl with curly strawberry blonde girl, who is 'spoiled' by her father, is the object of adoration and doesn't have to change one bit to live happily ever after.
It's a secondary narrative, really, but one I found refreshing and subtlely positive,

And who doesn't like panettone and Tomie dePaola :

I mentioned this in the A Book and Related Gift group here: sitelink goodreads. com/topic/show/ but I think I should have mentioned that the addition of a copy of sitelinkDays of the Blackbird somewhat harder to find secondhand copies only, I think or perhaps the easier to locate sitelinkMerry Christmas, Strega Nona.
For extra cultural points, you could up the Italian folktale content still further with the addition of sitelinkThe Legend of Old Befana Buona Lettura, yes this is definately buona lettura.

This title was readily accessible to me and hey its Tomie, so i have had it home with me several weeks, What a sweet surprise for me that it turned out to be an Italian folktale, It was charming and Italianfood as well as romance,
amd thanks Tomie for teaching me that biscotti means cookie,

According to the author's note Tomie was the creative director of Whitebird books for G, C. Putumn which was publishing international folktales, so now I am in search of some of these titles, A google search only produced one, if you know on any titles send me a message, Thanks,

Text Set book

This book is an Italian fairytalelike folklore book about a young man who seeks a princess, and works with Pasta in order to gain her fathers respect.
At the end of the story, Tony creates the Italian bread, panetonne, This book demonstrates how different one cultures side dish can be from another,

I would introduce the book in this way: “Introduction: In Italy, a country in Europe, there is a special kind of bread Italians and now anybody can eat during special occasions.
Lets to read to find about how this delicious Italian bread came to be, ”

I would also include turn and talk questions, such as:

“Oh no, Tony is feeling insecure about his bread, He feels like the bread of Milan is way better than his, What would you say to Tony, now that you know about how there are so many different types of delicious breads in the world”

Another class project I would do with my class would be to bring in panetonne and have student compare and contrast panetonne from the slice bread they eat in the cafeteria.
By providing them with the hands on experience of exploring the new bread after being exposed to Italian culture, students would go into the exploration with an excited lens as

opposed to critical of the new bread they may have never tasted.


This book also gives students insight into a small European town, and values the individuals hard work and determination, One thing that I appreciate about this book is that it is a fairytale told from a “princes” point of view, instead of the typical princess,

Is it monkey bread This was a fairly entertaining read, There were a couple of parts I found a little ridiculous, but they didn't bother me too much, I also thought the story was a bit random, but still enjoyable, And of course, I always like Tomie's illustrations, I'd recommend, especially if you like reading Italian folklore,

Taken from my book reviews blog: sitelink blogspot. com/ Tonys Bread: An Italian Folktale by Tomie dePaola Childrens Illustrated Colour Picture Book The book narrates the story of a Baker named Antony who owned a Bakery outside grand village of Milano and his daughter Serafina.
Tony has three sisters one was named Zia Klotilda, People called him Tony. His wife had expired. Tony dreams to own a bakery in northern city of Milano, His daughter wishes to marry a loving and rich man in the baking profession, One day a rich man named Angelo arrives in Milano, He finds that the window curtain moves in the air and he views a beautiful Serafina weeping, He falls in love with her instantly, He talks to her three aunts to Tony, Serafina and about their dreams, Four of them, three aunts and Angelo plan to fulfil their dreams, He writes letters to Tony and Serafina, Tony visits Milano to see the bakeries and their products, Tony finds that his baking skill is inferior to that of bakers of Milano, His daughter and his soninlaw encourage him to bake with the help of sugar, fruits as ingredients, A day is fixed for inauguration of his Bakery and marriage of Serafina and Angelo, Bishop amp other Police Authorities of Milano are invited, Residents of Milano arrive at his Bakery to purchase cakes, pastries, bread and other items displayed, People appreciate Tonys bakery and all live happily forever, Till today, on Christmas, people of Milano eat Tonys bread, Coloured illustrations help the reader to relate to the story, I have read the Hindi language translation of this book, I like learning lesser known, to me, cultural traditions from Italy through many of dePaola's books, I've never heard of the bread it mentions but it sounded interesting, One of the many stories on the origin of panettone, Tomie dePaola has taken full advantage of the folktale style in this picture book, telling a story that is both interesting and culturally informative, Tony's Bread would be a perfect book to use in an elementary school unit about countries outside the U, S. , to give a general sense of the feel behind Italian stories about the origin of favorite foods, I would give one and a half to this book, A cute folktale from Italy, I liked it. Tony dreams that one day he'll become the most famous baker in northern Italy, His poor daughter Serafina wants to be allowed to marry, Each of their dreams seems far away until Angelo, a rich young nobleman from Milan, appears and devises a way to make everyone's dreams come true, Full color. .