DePaola, Tomie

Ari, Pip, and Kira are the littlest angels, and they are too small to bake a cake, groom barn animals, or make wrteths. What will they do for the Christmas celebration?.

A once-famous Italian juggler, now old and a beggar, gives one final performance before a statue of Our Lady and the Holy Child.

A baker loses his daughter but gains a bakery in the grand city of Milano after meeting a determined nobleman and baking a unique loaf of bread.

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

Bill the crocodile and his toothbrush, Pete the plover, set out to save Bill's cousin, who has been captured along with other endangered animals and taken from Egypt to Bad Guy's Big Bad Brother's Exotic Animal Farm near New Orleans, Louisiana.

When he learns that his mother is going to have a baby, Tommy is very excited and hopes that the baby will be a sister.

Big Anthony disguises himself as a girl in order to take magic lessons from Strega Nona.

A rival puts Strega Nona out of the healing business until Big Anthony's assistance inadvertently sabotages the newcomer in his usual well-meaning way.