Children's author-illustrator Tomie De Paola describes his experiences at home and in school when he was a boy.

Author-illustrator Tomie De Paola describes his experiences at home and in school in 1941 when he was a boy.

Tomie has an eventful first grade year with his sixth birthday party, his first Halloween trick-or-treating followed by Thanksgiving, his first C

From gas rationing to air-raid drills, as long as the war lasts, life is going to be different for Tomie. And sometimes different is hard. Fortun

Children's author-illustrator Tomie De Paola describes his experiences at home and in school when he was a boy.

Children's author-illustrator Tomie De Paola describes his experiences at home and in school when he was a boy.

Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the air raid drills and the need to darken windows at night fill first-grader Tomie with fear, but with rea

Author and illustrator Tomie De Paola continues his autobiography with the events between January 1, 1942-April 29, 1942.