MIDDLETOWN—With the eye of an artist, Terri DelNegro embeds photographic images into graphics that illustrate her first children’s book, “A Friend for Macaroni.” DelNegro was on hand to promote her book on April 30 at the Thrall Library.
DelNegro said she was inspired by a real experience with her granddaughter. The child’s cat Macaroni had run away and was missing for three days. DelNegro recalls her granddaughter’s anguish. “She was very devastated. She kept saying ‘Why would he leave me? I never even got to say goodbye.’”
The little girl’s mother had a solution. “My daughter-in-law told her that she should write him a letter and put it up on the hill where she saw him last to give her a chance to say goodbye.” What happened next was uncanny. “That evening the cat came home.”
DelNegro’s creative juices began to flow. “I started to visualize pictures to depict her story.” DelNegro took and printed photos of Macaroni in various positions.
