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Illustrator Paper Tomie dePaola is a very popular children’s book author that writes and illustrates his own books. Although dePaola has dozens of books written and illustrated by him, many of his books’ illustrations are similar. In a sample of three of his books, Pancakes for Breakfast, Tom, and Strega Nona’s Magic Lessons, his characters look very much alike and his styles are similar. However, there are some elements from each book that …

…for Breakfast wasn’t filled with a lot of details. I liked the fact that I didn’t have to ask myself, “Why is that there?” or “why did he do that?” I enjoyed dePaola’s illustration style in these 3 books and believe that if I picked up another book illustrated by him, I would be able to tell it was by him by the style since many of his books are all very similar.