{"id":1149,"date":"2007-02-17T22:06:26","date_gmt":"2007-02-18T05:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2007\/02\/17\/strega-nona-meets-her-match-a-dangerous-and-inappropriate-childrens-story\/"},"modified":"2007-02-19T14:12:13","modified_gmt":"2007-02-19T21:12:13","slug":"strega-nona-meets-her-match-a-dangerous-and-inappropriate-childrens-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2007\/02\/17\/strega-nona-meets-her-match-a-dangerous-and-inappropriate-childrens-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Strega Nona Meets Her Match: A Dangerous and Inappropriate Children&#8217;s Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Strega-Nona-Meets-Match-Paperstar\/dp\/0698114116\/sr=8-1\/qid=1171775275\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1\/103-0780056-3811015?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books\">Strega Nona Meets Her Match<\/a> by Tomie dePaola<\/p>\n<p>Wherein Strega Nona defeats her business competition by sending in a saboteur.<\/p>\n<p>I was researching books that I might give to my niece and I came across this gem.<\/p>\n<p>Strega Nona is a traditional healer in a little town in Calabria. Her friend Strega Amelia is a healer from over the mountain. Strega Amelia comes for a visit and sees what a good business Strega Nona has in the town and decides to compete with her. <a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/strega-amelia-shop.jpg\" title=\"Strega Amelia\u2019s Helpful Services\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/strega-amelia-shop.thumbnail.jpg\" title=\"Strega Amelia\u2019s Helpful Services\" alt=\"Strega Amelia\u2019s Helpful Services\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Strega Amelia says, &#8220;I see she still uses the old-fashioned ways too. Hmm, I&#8217;ll have to think about this.&#8221; Strega Amelia goes home and returns a week later, setting up her shop. She offers modern, effective remedies and &#8220;free sweets and coffee with every visit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Strega Amelia is an instant hit! After a few weeks, everyone in the town has realized that Strega Amelia supplies better products and services than Strega Nona and Stella Nona&#8217;s tired old business has dried up completely.<\/p>\n<p>S<a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/big-anthony-in-charge.jpg\" title=\"Big Anthony in Charge\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/big-anthony-in-charge.thumbnail.jpg\" title=\"Big Anthony in Charge\" alt=\"Big Anthony in Charge\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>o what does Strega Nona do? She gets her helper, Big Anthony to infiltrate Strega Amelia&#8217;s company. Then, when Amelia is away on business, Big Anthony finds his moment and sabotages Amelia&#8217;s corporate image. At the height of his attack, he &#8220;forgets&#8221; how to operate the headache relieving machine<a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/run-out-of-town.jpg\" title=\"run out of town\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/run-out-of-town.thumbnail.jpg\" title=\"run out of town\" alt=\"run out of town\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a> and almost kills the mayor.<\/p>\n<p>Strega Amelia returns the next day only to be run out of town. Strega Nona works her magic one last time and makes sure her fingerprints aren&#8217;t on the crime.<\/p>\n<p>And everyone lives happily ever after. (?!?!?!) Yes, it really plays out like that. This book sends a very bad message.<\/p>\n<p>In the next Strega Nona book she gets even with her mean neighbor by framing her for a felony. Then Strega Nona orders a hit on the mayor. Hilarity ensues!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strega Nona Meets Her Match by Tomie dePaola Wherein Strega Nona defeats her business competition by sending in a saboteur. I was researching books that I might give to my niece and I came across this gem. Strega Nona is a traditional healer in a little town in Calabria. Her friend Strega Amelia is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-product-recommendations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}