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(1983)

  • When? From the Hardcover edition.

    • Tillie and the Wall

    Illus. And at Christmas, after a full year of friendship, the mice and tree rejoice together, looking forward to the next busy year.

    Let’s Play

    Here is a Leo Lionni book for the very youngest! When the wheat ripens, the farmer builds a scarecrow to frighten them off, but these ingenious crows are not so easily scared.

    Climb a tree or gather leaves? Pigs are pink. How he gets the berries he was hoping to find, and learns to trust the very creatures he thought were his enemies, makes this Leo Lionni fable one that young children will want to hear again and again. Play ball? Originally published in 1969, the Caldecott Honor winning Alexander and the Wind up Mouse is sure to enchant a whole new generation of readers.

    Fish is Fish

    Illus.

    Children will draw inspiration from this tale of a crocodile who marches to his own drummer.

    It’s Mine!

    Caldecott Medalist Leo Lionni’s classic tale about three childlike frogs wholearn a valuable lesson about cooperation is now available in paperback. That night Matthew dreams about

    walking hand in hand through ‘playful patches of color.’ He awakens, his

    inspiration stays with him and he goes on to paint great things.

    Little Blue and Little Yellow are best friends, but one day they can’t find each other.

    Matthew’s Dream

    ‘One of Lionni’s familiar looking mice lives in a junk strewn attic. Cuddle up and share the magic of the season with this bright and engaging bo...

  • Where Are Swimmy's Friends?

    For the very first time—a Leo Lionni's Friends lift-the-flap book!

    two mice ask each other.

    lionni leo biography books list

    Then a clever purple caterpillar teaches the letters to become even stronger by forming sentences with a message of peace. And another. Are those ordinary pebbles you see, lying on an ordinary beach? When he discovers a mushroom that says Quirp, Theodore tells his friends that this is the only talking mushroom in the world, and that quirp means that he should be venerated above all animals.

    A superior picture book, this should be a perennial favorite for primary grade story hours.’ starred School Library Journal.