What a Year!

by Tomie dePaola

Book Overview

In a review of the third 26 Fairmount Avenue book, On My Way , School Library Journal said, "Readers will be delighted with the final line: 'There's more coming!'" Well, here it is: Celebrate Tomie's sixth birthday in style, watch as he dresses up as Snow White for his first halloween trick-or-treating, join in as he celebrates holidays with his family, suffers through a bout of the chicken pox, and gets to stay up to see in the new year! In the fourth...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399237976
• ISBN13: 9780399237973
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 7 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 6

Customer Reviews

1940...The Year Continues.....

Tomie dePaola is back with the fourth installment of his marvelously charming and warmhearted 26 Fairmount Avenue series. What A Year picks up right where On My Way left off, September 1940, and for young Tomie, this was the very best time of the year. September brings the beginning of first grade and Tomie's sixth birthday, with a class party and special presents. Then on to his first trick or treating Halloween and a favorite costume, Thanksgiving with the extended dePaola clan and a trip to the movies to see Pinocchio, Christmas, with pageants and presents, almost ruined by chicken pox, and the first New Year's Eve he stayed up past midnight to ring in the new year. And through it all, Mr dePaola fills his engaging memoir with well remembered and entertaining details, events, and anecdotes. Written in an easy to read, conversational style, and enhanced by delightful black and white sketches, What A Year is perfect for youngsters 7-11, and makes an even better read-aloud story the entire family can share together. Told with great insight, wisdom, humor and love, the 26 Fairmount Avenue series just gets better with each new book. As Tomie writes in his diary on the first day of the new year..."I wonder what 1941 will be like?" We can only wait for the next installment to find out.