My grandma was a reading teacher for 30 some years, and she always loved Strega Nona so much. She'd dress up as her and come talk to school classrooms (even came to mine when I was a kid, even though we didn't live in the same state.) And once their little town theater did a play of Merry Christmas Strega Nona and of course, she was the star.
Thank you so much for sharing this with us! This is so special, and it sounds like you had such a wonderful grandma and personal Strega Nona in your life :)
I love Strega Nona! She was on a US postal stamp recently & I have to wonder who made it onto the stamp selection committee as Margaret Wise Brown’s (another queer author of youth lit!) Goodnight Moon is also on a forthcoming stamp.
My grandma was a reading teacher for 30 some years, and she always loved Strega Nona so much. She'd dress up as her and come talk to school classrooms (even came to mine when I was a kid, even though we didn't live in the same state.) And once their little town theater did a play of Merry Christmas Strega Nona and of course, she was the star.
Thank you so much for sharing this with us! This is so special, and it sounds like you had such a wonderful grandma and personal Strega Nona in your life :)
Loved this! Strega Nona was a staple in our childhood library!
big same!
This post is so nostalgic for me since I loved all of these books, especially the Miss Nelson series.
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I love Strega Nona! She was on a US postal stamp recently & I have to wonder who made it onto the stamp selection committee as Margaret Wise Brown’s (another queer author of youth lit!) Goodnight Moon is also on a forthcoming stamp.