Strega Nona fills her basket with two dozen tomatoes from her garden that she intends to donate to the convent, but her effort is challenged by her mischievous goat and her haphazard assistant, Big Anthony.

In Strega Nona's village, the holiday season is a time of celebrations-- and nothing says celebration like a feast. All the kitchens are bustling from the Feast of San Nicola, when the children choose the food, to the Feast of Epiphany, when someone gets to be king or queen for the day. Even the animals share in the holiday spirit, and when Big Anthony smells the delicious treats Strega Nona is cooking for them, he decides that just a taste couldn't...

Excluded from helping to prepare the Christmas celebration in Heaven, three small angels find a way to light up the night sky on Christmas Eve.

A knight who has never fought a dragon and an equally inexperienced dragon prepare to meet each other in battle.

Francis, the Little Poor One, is so filled with the love of God that he bursts into song, and he is joined by birds of every color.

Several boys who are looking for something to do make words from the letters in little Andy's name.

Big Anthony, well-meaning but inattentive, journeys around Italy causing one problem after another, before meeting Strega Nona.

A family discusses the origin of the Christmas tree as it decorates its own.

When Big Anthony borrows Strega Nona's magic ring to turn himself into a handsome man, he gets more trouble than fun.

Children's author-illustrator Tomie De Paola describes his experiences at home and in school when he was a boy.