Books for Kids: Posthumous Tomie dePaola stories a gift to fans

The Worlds of Tomie dePaola, Christina’s Carol add to celebrated author's legacy.

I’ve written about children’s books more than four decades, so it’s no surprise that by now some of my favourite authors and illustrators have shuffled off this mortal coil. Still, losing Eric Carle in May was startling; the 91-year-old author/illustrator of such classics as The Very Hungry Caterpillar had seemed omnipresent in the field of children’s literature. So had Tomie dePaola, who died in March last year, after a fall. He was 85. Read More