Book Series: 26 Fairmount Avenue
Author: Tomie dePaola
Genre: Autobiography
Plot: Tomie dePaola writes about his early childhood, moving to his family's new home and living life in the 1940s. The last three books deal with how things changed during World War II
Books:
- 26 Fairmount Avenue
- Here We All Are
- On My Way
- What a Year!
- Things Will Never Be the Same
- I'm Still Scared
- Why?
- For the Duration
This is a really impressive series. Long time children's book author and illustrator Tomie dePaola decided to write a series of short chapter books about his early childhood in the 1940s. It starts with the building of the family house and continues with Tomie starting school and the birth of his little sister. We see him loving art class and tap lessons. Then World War II starts, and we see things change.
The books are extremely short and easily read by a good reader in under 30 minutes, however, I enjoyed every minute of them. Since he's aiming these are smaller children, he doesn't drag things out (which is probably why the books are so short) and he makes sure to keep the plot moving.
