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beautiful children's book made me feel like I was back in Italy! The story depicts the authentic investment Italians have for good food, as well as the importance of generational parenting.
My/year old boys loved learning new words in Italian,

and connected to the simple elegance of the storyline.
This is a keeper! Bellissima! This is a delightful story of a young Italian boy who eagerly awaits the day when he can plant tomatoes with his nonno.


With beautifully drawn illustrations and a perfect smattering of Italian words and phrases, this is a charming book for young children.


The picturesque setting of the Italian countryside along with plentiful references to the traditions of family and culture certainly add to the charm of the story and are the perfect backdrop to the main focus of the tale, which explains the life cycle of the tomato plant.


Bellissima!

With thanks to the author for a copy to review via NetGalley, A beautiful children's book celebrating the cycle of a tomato plant told through the eyes of a little boy, Tino.
This book has all the elements I search for in books for my children celebrating nature and the magic found in simplicity grounded in an Italian culture, history, and language.
You don't need to be Italian to enjoy this, but it is wonderful for Italian families to be able to read a book to their children with Italian words interspersed with English ones.
A sweet tale that will become a classic for your family guaranteed! Bellissimo!

This is a lovely little book that captures the beauty of Italy, Italian culture, language and food.


While the resident sixyearold, has not yet been to Italy, she's been blessed cursed with a mother who is in love with Italy.
She's grown up hearing about the beautiful country and its people, and has been learning bits and pieces of the language all her life.


However, even for a child with no exposure to Italy, this book is perfect,

The illustrations fully demonstrate the beauty of Italy, They are simply gorgeous and made me a bit wistful for the apartment I lived in when I was in Sicily.
The bits of language sprinkled throughout the book are easy to understand glossary in the back, but really not needed as most is explained wonderfully in context, the book is chock full of food and culture!

Reading Tino and the Pomodori was like taking a mini Italian vacation.


ARC provided by NetGalley for review purposes,
Intelligently thought out, Tino and the Pomodori Tomatoes, a children's book, begins with six illustrations depicting how a tomato seed becomes a seedling, then a plant, then a flowering plant, then the plant growing the tomatoes, and lastly, a crate of harvested tomatoes.
The child gets an overview of what he is about to learn, showing that the author and illustrator are experienced educators!

"The sun woke Tino early this beautiful morning in his small Italian village.
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The first line of the book introduces Tino, a young boy who lives in Italy, I like that Italy's most famous produce is linked in a child's mind to the country, Tomatoes come originally from Latin America, but no other country has made tomatoes their national produce the way Italy has, using it to make the famous pasta sauce and so much more.


The era depicted in Italy seems from a generation ago, or perhaps from today in some areas of southern Italy.
We learn in a Note To Reader at the end of the book that the story of Tino is true, and is about the childhood of a grown man the author's father.
The Note is accompanied by a lovely map featuring the sort of landmarks a child would note,

Italian phrases and words are integrated into the Tino and the Pomodori's text, presenting a child with the concept of another country having another language.
The language is easy to understand, with translations incorporated into the text, This book is ideal for starting a child off learning Italian, or for continuing a child's study of Italian as a second language.
A Glossary of Italian Terms used in the book is provided at the back of the book,

The fullpage watercolor illustrations, by illustrator Britta Nicholson, are rich with authentic details characteristic of the Italian countryside, and of the basic houses and their contents.
The plants mentioned are correctly depicted, and correct for each time of year, The art style is naïve, simple and clear, colorful and endearing,

Children can be prompted to spot different details in the illustrations, with each subsequent reading of the story: the views from the open windows and doors, the cured meats drying overhead, basic cooking ingredients like flour farina and olive oil olio d'oliva, the time on a clock.


The text, together with the illustrations in Tino and the Pomodori, which I received as a reviewcopy, teaches children about the full growth cycle and the necessary care of tomato plants.
There is even a description of how the seeds are harvested from the tomatoes for the following year.
Today's urban children are too often disconnected from the sources of their food, Tino and the Pomodori goes a long way to correcting that lack of education,

The text and illustrations in Tino and the Pomodori complement each other perfectly, The basic, practical Italian words are effortlessly integrated into the story, Tino and the Pomodori is the perfect book to broaden a child's education, and to start a child off on learning the Italian language.
It ispages long, and available in hardback, to better withstand the multiple readings,

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Dolce, semplice e affetuoso, . .

Sweet, simple story that brings back memories of growing up that I never had, I think this book would be a favorite for both young children and their parents and grandparents, The illustrations were perfectly fit to the story, sweet and simple and warm,

The incidental use of Italian was not intrusive and it seemed easy to understand,

The only thing I marked down for is the formatting for the Kindle, which really doesn't work.
This book should be read in print, After reading Wrestling With the Devil, a memoir written with Antonio Russo, I was excited to find out she'd written another book.


This time it is in the shape of 'Tino and the Pomodori',

While you may think that the story of a boy learning about the life cycle of a tomato may not make an interesting story for a kids book, this one will definitely change your mind.


The beautiful story and gorgeous artwork really makes the Italian Culture and love that both the writer and the artist have fly off of the page.
It also helps to bring forward the beautiful story and bring it to life,

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I was excited to have the opportunity to preview Tino and the Pomodori, an upcoming children's title from Gemelli Press.
In this picture book, Tonya Russo Hamilton tells the story of her father as a young boy in Italy, anticipating his favorite time of the year: the tomato pomodori harvest.


This book has everything I look for in a great children's title, and some of you may remember sitelinkfrom last year's Armchair BEA.
. . I'm terribly picky. The watercolor illustrations are stunning and keep the reader's attention, The story is simple, sweet, and reads easily, Children will pick up Italian words and phrases, learn about Italian culture, and have a subtle science lesson in the life cycle of the tomato plant.
Charlotte Mason would have certainly approved of this as a "living science" book,

My daughter C, who is almost, connected with the story right away, She made me pause a few pages in to get her a snack of fresh tomatoes thankfully we had some in the fridge!, which she happily ate during the rest of the book.
She loved that Tino has a nonno Italian for grandfather because that's what she calls my father, and it's not a word she hears often.
She also fell in love with Giuseppe, the family's beautiful black horse,

There is a healthy dose of Italian language in Tino and the Pomodori, The switches between English and Italian occur naturally, translations are obvious, There's a glossary of terms in the back just in case, though I felt a pronunciation guide for anyone who might need it would have been helpful, too.
C is used to her books being in either English or Italian, not both, I was surprised by how excited she was to hear both languages in one book she actually commented on that.


I especially appreciated the focus on Italy's traditional food culture of eating fresh, local ingredients prepared simply.
I was reminded of walking through my neighbors' fields as a kid and enjoying with them a late, leisurely meal of similar foods.


I'm not sure how much longer the picture book stage will last, but Tino and the Pomodori is going to have a place on our shelf.


I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for my honest review.
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