{"id":696,"date":"2013-01-04T21:08:46","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T21:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/nclc\/?p=696"},"modified":"2013-01-04T21:08:46","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T21:08:46","slug":"tomie-depaola-featured-in-latest-kearsarge-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2013\/01\/04\/tomie-depaola-featured-in-latest-kearsarge-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomie dePaola featured in latest Kearsarge magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[slideshow_deploy id=&#8217;705&#8242;]One of our favorite NCLC donors, Tomie dePaola, is the cover guy for the winter 2012\/2013 Kearsarge magazine, with a great article inside written by John Walters accompanied by lovely photography by Tom McNeill.\u00a0 Now 78 years old, Tomie has published something like 250 books.\u00a0 His newest book, <em>The birds of Bethlehem,<\/em> is a retelling of the Nativity story from a bird&#8217;s perspective.\u00a0 John Walters interviewed Tomie about his life and love of reading and art, his teaching career, and his outlook on the many awards he has received.\u00a0 His favorite, Walters reports, is that his hometown of Meriden, Connecticut, named its children&#8217;s library after him.<\/p>\n<p>The Angel for Tomie&#8217;s 2012 Christmas card is a <em>&#8220;<\/em>re-imagining&#8221; of one of his designs for a hand-screened greeting card business in Vermont in the late 1950&#8217;s.\u00a0 Tomie has changed the background, added color and lettering, and reports, &#8220;It&#8217;s an interesting thing to take an image that is fifty-plus years old and re-visiting it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tomie&#8217;s house is full of ornaments he has designed himself, in addition to a large collection of folk art from around the world.\u00a0 And, Walters reports, &#8220;plenty of poinsettias.&#8221;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[slideshow_deploy id=&#8217;705&#8242;]One of our favorite NCLC donors, Tomie dePaola, is the cover guy for the winter 2012\/2013 Kearsarge magazine, with a great article inside written by John Walters accompanied by lovely photography by Tom McNeill.\u00a0 Now 78 years old, Tomie &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2013\/01\/04\/tomie-depaola-featured-in-latest-kearsarge-magazine\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[359,353,367,365,1],"tags":[73,123],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}