Leo Lionni, Author Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $12.95 (30p) ISBN 978-0-394-82155-9
Some mice take the wall for granted, never speaking of itin fact, never even seeing it. But for Tillie, a mouse who believes that the grass (and scenery) on the other side must be not only greener, but fantastic and beautiful, the lure of the wall...
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Leo Lionni, Author Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-394-81016-4
Old favorites find their way back into print. Leo Leonni's The Alphabet Tree was first published in 1968, during America's involvement in Vietnam. In this simple allegory, a fierce wind keeps a tree filled with timid letters at bay. A word-bug and a
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Leo Lionni, Author Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-375-82615-3
Leo Lionni's Little Mice Tales brings together four classic stories starring resourceful mice into a boxed set of miniature paper-over-board editions. In the Caldecott Honor book Frederick, rather than gathering corn and nuts with the other mice,
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Leo Lionni, Author Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $6.99 (26p) ISBN 978-0-375-82737-2
A Busy Year by Leo Lionni follows a momentous friendship between twin mice Willie and Winnie and Woody, the tree they befriend throughout the course of a year. ""In this deceptively simple tale, Lionni characteristically hides a moral from which...
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Leo Lionni, Author Alfred A. Knopf $35 (320p) ISBN 978-0-679-42393-5
When at 49 (in 1959), Lionni resigned as design director for the Time Inc. magazine Fortune, an executive asked, ""You mean to say that you are not happy here?"" Lionni insisted that he was. ""Then why are you leaving?"" ""Because,"" he explained, ""
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Leo Lionni, Author Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $16 (1p) ISBN 978-0-679-85840-9
``On Pebble Island, there lived three frogs: Marilyn, August, and one who was always somewhere else.'' Like the amiable animals in Lionni's previous, inimitable fables, these anthropomorphized amphibians have a quiet but memorable adventure. In the...
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Leo Lionni, Author Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $15 (1p) ISBN 978-0-679-83890-6
Life as a happy handsome city mouse ends abruptly for Timothy when he looks into the mirror one morning and sees ``a strange creature dressed in black staring at him.'' His brown ears and furry gray body have been replaced by a human-like form...
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Leo Lionni, Author Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $7.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-679-82464-0
In this deceptively simple tale, Lionni characteristically hides a moral from which kids of all ages will profit. On New Year's Day, twin mice Willie and Winnie discover a ``snowmouse'' that appears to be holding a broom. But a voice announces, ``I...
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Leo Lionni, Author Dragonfly Books $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-679-84019-0
Fabricated by a creative pencil and pair of scissors, two jolly bunnies make a surprising discovery in this characteristic bit of Lionnian whimsy. Ages 3-8. (Mar.)
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Leo Lionni, Author Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $12.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-394-89572-7
A war of scarecrows begins when a farmer tries to banish six crows from his wheatfield. He creates a horned, menacing figure; the crows fight back by building a giant, ugly bird to hover above the fields like a shadow. The owl intervenes and...
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Leo Lionni, Author Alfred A. Knopf $6.99 (28p) ISBN 978-0-375-82528-6
Also new to the board-book format, Let's Play by Leo Lionni finds two playful mice climbing a tree, eating cheese, playing dress-up and having fun all day long.
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Leo Lionni, Author Alfred A. Knopf $15.95 (28p) ISBN 978-0-375-82399-2
A city mouse explains Mardi Gras to a group of country mice and they decide to stage their own celebration, complete with wild animal masks, in The Greentail Mouse by Leo Lionni. In a wordless spread, the artist indicates the mice's personalities
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Leo Lionni, Author Dragonfly Books $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-679-88785-0
Lionni's signature watercolors span the rainbow in this story of a chameleon who, while searching for his identity, finds a friend with whom he can share his changeable nature. Ages 3-5. (Sept.)
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Leo Lionni, Author Dragonfly Books $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-679-88084-4
The author/artist's trademark cut-paper collages add distinction to a tale of a toad who saves three frogs from a flood--and from endless bickering. Ages 3-7. (Apr.)
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Leo Lionni, Author Dragonfly Books $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-679-87318-1
On a visit to a museum, a mouse discovers his artistic vocation; PW's boxed review said, ``In a classic `less is more' mode, the text is direct yet abundantly meaningful.'' Ages 3-7. (Apr.)
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Leo Lionni, Author, Leo Lionni, Illustrator Dragonfly Books $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-679-89385-1
Lionni ""is in typically fine form"" with this witty story about three frogs who have a ""memorable"" adventure, said PW. Ages 4-8. (Nov.)
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Leo Lionni, Author, Leo Lionni, Illustrator Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $6.99 (30p) ISBN 978-0-375-81564-5
Caldecott Honor artist Leo Lionni's Let's Make Rabbits is tailor-made for a board book. Simple line drawings and cut-paper collage artwork illustrate the bare bones tale of a pencil and a pair of scissors that craft two bunnies who become ""the...
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Leo Lionni, Author, Leo Lionni, Illustrator HarperCollins $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-13284-2
Realistic black-and-white renderings of stones with fanciful names (fishpebbles, numberpebbles, peoplepebbles) make up this simple and effective book by the Caldecott Honor artist. Ages 3-up. (Aug.)
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Leo Lionni, Author, Leo Lionni, Illustrator Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-394-80440-8
Leo Lionni's Fish Is Fish (1970) brings back the tale of a friendship between a tadpole and minnow, and the changes wrought when the now-fully-fledged frog tries to describe the wonders above ground to his finned friend. Lionni's palette, as...
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Leo Lionni, Author, Bruno Bettelheim, Designed by Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $20 (132p) ISBN 978-0-394-87710-5
In an introduction by the eminent psychologist Bruno Bettelheim, parents are assured that picture books help little children to make sense of reality. He praises Lionni's ""images which in one visual experience convey more than can be said in 1000...
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