Leo Lionni
Leo Lionni was an American writer and illustrator of children's books. Born in the Netherlands, he moved to Italy and lived there before moving to the United States in 1939, where he worked as an art director for several advertising agencies, and then for Fortune magazine. He returned to Italy in 1962 and started writing and illustrating children's books. In 1962, his book Inch by Inch was awarded the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award.
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A Busy Year
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1992
Mr. McMouse
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1992
Matthew's Dream
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1991
An Extraordinary Egg
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1990
Tillie and the wall
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1989
Frederick and his friends
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1989
Six Crows
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1988
Nicolas, where have you been?
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1987
It's mine!
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1986
Colors
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1985
Frederick's fables
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1985
Numbers
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1985
Cornelius
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1983
Let's make rabbits
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1982
Geraldine, the music mouse
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1979
A Flea Story
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1977
I want to stay here! I want to go there!
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1977
A Colour of his own
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1975
Pezzettino
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1975
In the rabbitgarden
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1975
The Greentail Mouse
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1973
Theodore and the talking mushroom
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1971
Fish is fish
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1970
Alexander and the wind-up mouse
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1969
The Alphabet Tree
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1968
The biggest house in the world
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1968
Tico and the Golden Wings
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1964
Frederick
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1963
Swimmy
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1963
On my beach there are many pebbles
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1961
Inch by inch
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1960
Little blue and little yellow
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1959