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Telling Stories with Tomie dePaola aired on Hallmark Channel from August to October 2001.
Episodes
- Gabe tells Tomie the story of Goldilocks, except Goldilocks is a bear who breaks into the bears' house to find something to gossip about.
- Strega Nona tells a story about Big Anthony losing his hat, Bambolona finding that her flowers are gone, and Strega Nona noticing that her dancing potion is missing. They all blame each other for the thefts, until a goat dances by carrying flowers and wearing a hat.
- Tomie tells us that "every picture tells a story," and shows a photo of an unseen figure molding an animal out of clay.
- Tomie shows us a box-sculpture that he claims tells a story. Here is the entire, unedited transcript of his story: "This is the meeting of the great white marshmallow chickens - and every year when this occurence happens, the armadillos come to worship the big armadillo in the basket - not to be confused with the chicken in the basket!"
- Tomie shows us another box-sculpture that tells the story of the Starship Egg Carton, which lands on the Planet of the PingPongians. The astronauts are wary of the aliens, but they make friends when the astronauts teach the PingPongians how to make an omelet.
- The guest storyteller is a percussionist, who claims: "The instruments are the story - because they are the power and the history of the people who created those things."
- A little girl shows off her tiger mask, and tells a story about it: "I'm the three-eyed brown tiger with two missing teeth. In the morning, he'll eat some pears and pineapples. And then after he eats, he'll go sit down someplace, like under a shady tree, and read." "Savage Steve" Holland teaches us how to be an animator: "Here's a suggestion. Carry a sketchbook around with you, and draw your family, and friends, and pets, and draw them funny. And if you have a particular picture that you like, put it up against a window with the sun in the background, and take a blank piece of paper and trace that drawing, but alter it just a little bit, and then take that second drawing, and alter that one a little bit. And then take a third and fourth one, and keep going, until you're animating it, and it changes. And pretty soon you're an animator." a young boy tells us a story about his scarecrow doll: "A man made a scarecrow? And he put a lot of stuff in it? He put it in his backyard? And the scarecrow was alive? And he made a wand? And when there were, like, animals and creatures? He scared them off? Or turned them into other stuff?" Tomie tells us the hilarious story of the time he went to see the movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarves and noticed how different the movie version was from the book.
Cast
- Tomie DePaola as Tomie DePaola
- John Kennedy as Gabe
- Alison Mork
Crew
- Directed by David Gumpel
- Written by Craig Shemin
External links
- ToughPigs - My Week with Tomie dePaola