Here We All Are (A 26 Fairmount Avenue Book)
Good for Tomie dePaola! Few of us get to go back to childhood and  explain just what in theworldwe were thinking when we did things like(a)licking a bedpost to see if it tasted like maple syrup (Tomie's mom  told him his furniture was "genuine maple"),(b)wearing lipstick and  pretending to be Mae West, or(c)refusing to go to the bathroom for days  (Tomie was pretty distressed to have his mom trapped in the hospital after  delivering his brand-new baby sister). But award-winning author-illustrator  dePaola elaborates on all of this and more in a charming--and winningly  evenhanded--tell-all memoir, recounted in an artfully convincing 5-year-old's  voice.The sequel to the 2000 Newbery Honor winner26 Fairmount Avenue,Here We  All Arehas Tomie, his 9-year-old brother, Buddy, and Mom and Dad settling  into the new house on Fairmount as Tomie continues kindergarten with Miss  Immick. Part Linus Van Pelt, part Calvin (minus Hobbes), the budding performer  Tomie proves to be as endearing--and sometimes aggravating--as you'd expect a  5-year-old to be. In this second installment of the26 Fairmountseries,  Tomie enrolls in tap classes at Miss Leah's Dancing School, upstages Peter  Rabbit in a school play while hamming it up as Flopsy, and faces off against his  hilariously terrifying Italian grandmother, Nana Fall-River. (Ages 7 to 10)--Paul Hughes--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.