Tomie dePaola, RIP

As far as I am concerned, the all-time best dePaola book was one he illustrated for the great Daniel Pinkwater, The Wuggie Norple Story. That's Wuggie by the way, the big orange one, straddled by young King Waffle and surrounded by the rest of the family and its pets, each bigger than the last. Some of them have silly names.