- Juvenile fiction, Individuality, Artists, Fiction
Having learned to be creative in drawing pictures at home, young Tommy is dismayed when he goes to school and finds the art lesson there much more regimented.
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Classical in form, intimate, spare and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- Tomie dePaola
- First published
- 1989
- Pages
- 32
- Publisher
- Aurum, Putnam Juvenile, G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Editions
- 19
- Language
- Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780440840886
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“Tommy knew he wanted to be an artist when he grew up.”
**Thomas Anthony de Paola** was born in Meriden, Connecticut. He became interested in art at an early age. After graduating from high school, he attended the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. In 1956, he graduated with his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. He taught art at Newton College of the Sacred Heart from 1962 to 1966, then moved to California where he taught at San Francisco College for Women from 1967 to 1970. His first illustrated book, *Sound*, was published in 1965. In 1969, he received his Master of Fine Arts degree from California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland. He relocated to New England and taught art at Chamberlayne Junior College in Boston from 1972 to 1973. He the
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