26 Fairmont Avenue

If you’ve seen our children’s book collection and record of library withdraws, you know that we’re big fans of Tomie dePaola. We love how he incorporates his Catholic faith in so many of his books. Our friend, Teresa, told me that he wrote a series of chapter books for young readers about his life growing up. The first book is titled, 26 Fairmont Avenue. I loved it. Therese loved it and Adam was a big fan too! It wasn’t too long, and it took us 2 days to finish (it would have taken only 1 day but alas it was Therese’s bedtime).

You know you’ll get a good laugh when he talks about how his non-Catholic neighbor who was afraid of storms would come to their house so his mom could sprinkle her with holy water whenever the weather took a turn for the worse. My favorite part was he was looking through his great-grandma’s room for candy and mistook the laxatives for chocolate candies (that he and his great-grandma finished a package of)!

Give it a read; it’ll put a smile on your face!