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Reading order

Strega Nona reading order

Tomie dePaola

  1. Strega Nona1975
  2. Big Anthony and the Magic Ring1979
  3. Merry Christmas, Strega Nona1986
  4. Strega Nona: Her Story1996
  5. Big Anthony1998
  6. Strega Nona's Gift2011
  7. Strega Nona and Her Tomatoes2017
  8. Strega Nona and the Twins2017
  9. Brava, Strega Nona!: A Heartwarming Pop-Up Book2008
8.48.4 / 10
81 ratings
Score
9 volumes
Volumes
1975–2017
Published
about 5 h
Reading time
Completed
Status
Picture books
Genre

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Strega Nona
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Publication order

9 volumes1975–2017Completed

  • Tomie dePaola’s picture books about Strega Nona, “Grandma Witch”, the wise healer of a little town in Calabria.
  • In the first, a Caldecott Honor book, her well-meaning but careless helper Big Anthony secretly uses her magic pasta pot without learning how to stop it, and pasta floods the town.
  • Warm, funny and gently moral, with dePaola’s folk-art pictures.
  • It rates among the very best picture books here.
  • The many sequels can be read in any order.

A plan for the whole series

9 volumes, 288 pages, about 5 hours. At 45 min a day that is 7 days.

Stages

This series fits in one stage. You finish around November 5, 2026.

  1. Stage 15 h7 daysby November 5, 2026
    • 1. Strega Nona1975 · 32 pages · 1 h
    • 2. Big Anthony and the Magic Ring1979 · 32 pages · 1 h
    • 4. Merry Christmas, Strega Nona1986 · 32 pages · 1 h
    • 6. Strega Nona: Her Story1996 · ≈ 32 pages · 1 h
    • 7. Big Anthony1998 · 32 pages · 1 h
    • 10. Strega Nona's Gift2011 · ≈ 32 pages · 1 h
    • 12. Strega Nona and Her Tomatoes2017 · 32 pages · 1 h
    • 13. Strega Nona and the Twins2017 · 32 pages · 1 h
    • 14. Brava, Strega Nona!: A Heartwarming Pop-Up Book2008 · ≈ 32 pages · 1 h
  2. The end of the series
    November 5, 2026

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How this plan is calculated

The plan comes from the pages and ratings of each volume: we split the series into stages of about three weeks’ reading, size each break to the stage before it, and read the chance of finishing from how many readers rate the last volume compared with the first. How we work out the plan →

Every volume in order

Read: 0 of 9
  1. Strega Nona
    Strega Nona1975 · 81 ratingsStart here
    8.58.5 / 10
  2. Big Anthony and the Magic Ring
    Big Anthony and the Magic Ring1979 · Not ranked yetBuy
    –Not ranked yet
  3. Merry Christmas, Strega Nona
    Merry Christmas, Strega Nona1986 · Not ranked yetBuy
    –Not ranked yet
  4. Strega Nona: Her Story
    Strega Nona: Her Story1996 · Not ranked yetBuy
    –Not ranked yet
  5. Big Anthony
    Big Anthony1998 · Not ranked yetBuy
    –Not ranked yet
  6. Strega Nona's Gift
    Strega Nona's Gift2011 · Not ranked yetBuy
    –Not ranked yet
  7. Strega Nona and Her Tomatoes
    Strega Nona and Her Tomatoes2017 · Not ranked yetBuy
    –Not ranked yet
  8. Strega Nona and the Twins
    Strega Nona and the Twins2017 · Not ranked yetBuy
    –Not ranked yet
  9. Brava, Strega Nona!: A Heartwarming Pop-Up Book
    Brava, Strega Nona!: A Heartwarming Pop-Up Book2008 · Not ranked yetBuy
    –Not ranked yet

Order checked by hand · Order and years: Wikidata (CC0). Spotted an error? Tell us. · Data updated October 29, 2026