''26 Fairmount Avenue'' () is a 1999 children's novel by
Tomie dePaola.
The book won a
Newbery Honor in 2000,
and was named a Notable Children's Book on the
Association for Library Service to Children's annual list that year.
Plot
The book deals with the early life of Tomie dePaola. He has just moved to a new house in
Connecticut and the
1938 hurricane
The 1938 New England Hurricane (also referred to as the Great New England Hurricane and the Long Island Express Hurricane) was one of the deadliest and most destructive tropical cyclones to strike Long Island, New York, and New England. The storm ...
has just hit. Tomie expresses unhappiness for seeing ''
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'' in the theatres.
Continuity
Characters such as Nana Upstairs and Nana Downstairs, introduced in other dePaola books, are present in this book.
Other books in this series
*''Here We All Are''
*''On My Way. ''
*''What a Year!''
*''Things Will Never be the Same (The War Years)''
*''I'm Still Scared (The War Years)''
*''Why? (The War Years)''
*''For the Duration (The War Years)''
See also
*''
Nana Upstairs & Nana Downstairs''
References
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External links
26 Fairmount Avenue Vocabulary 26 Fairmount Avenue Novel Unit Literacy Pack 26 Fairmount Avenue review
1999 American novels
American children's novels
Children's historical novels
Newbery Honor-winning works
Novels set in Connecticut
Fiction set in 1938
Novels set in the 1930s
1999 children's books
Works by Tomie de Paola
Children's books set in Connecticut
Children's books set in the 1930s