Best Selling Books by LEO LIONNI

A group of mice introduce the numbers one through ten. On board pages.

Theodore, a timid mouse who is constantly being ridiculed by his friends, runs into trouble when he discovers a huge blue mushroom and pretends that it can talk.

When a fierce wind threatens to blow all the little letters out of the alphabet tree, they must band together in words—and then sentences—to create a message that''s even stronger than the wind: peace on earth. With their newfound knowledge, there''s nothing the letters can''t do in this gentle parable about the power of the written word.

"Leo Lionni here presents ... [an] imaginary plant kingdom .. Lionni marshals all the facts, all the fabulous lore and scholarship surrounding parallel plants ... And, too, he provides his own elegant, detailed, and scientifically accurate drawings of each nonexistent plant species"--Cover.

Take a look. And another. And another. Are those ordinary pebbles you see, lying on an ordinary beach? Or are they hearts and gift-wrapped packages, numbers, letters, and the faces of friends? Take a look. And another.

Overnight, city mouse Timothy becomes a little man. And when he runs away to the country, the other mice are not so sure he''s really one of them--until Timothy rescues the others from a hungry cat. A masterly blend of fable and collage from the bestselling author of Frederick and Swimmy. Full-color illustrations.

A classic fable about the search for identity, from Caldecott Honor winning picture book creator Leo Lionni. Pezzettino lives in a world in which everyone is big and does daring and wonderful things. But he is small, just a “little piece,” which is the meaning of pezzettino in Italian. “I must be a piece of somebody. I must belong to someone else,” he thinks. How Pezzettino learns that he belongs to no one but himself is the joyous and satisfying conclusion to this beautiful mosaic style picture book.

Artisie, giraluna, tirilli e altre fantastiche specie vegetali sono qui presentate con l’accuratezza dello scienziato. Lionni rovescia il Borges della Zoologia fantastica: raffigura minuziosamente il proprio universo botanico immaginario e rende percepibile, attraverso lo studio delle sue straordinarie proprietà, la flora di un pianeta gemello dove non ci stupiremmo di incontrare le Città invisibili di Calvino. Come a volerci dire che il solo modo possibile di parlare del mondo sia quello di descrivere realisticamente una dimensione del tutto falsa. Una realtà parallela e magica popolata di piante, che “prima di essere piante, sono parole”. “Vi sono piante che appaiono chiaramente in immagini fotografiche, ma che l’occhio umano non può percepire. Ve ne sono che rifiutano le comuni norme della prospettiva mantenendo inalterata la loro grandezza, nonostante la distanza che le separa da noi. Altre, incolori, che in determinate condizioni rivelano un gioco cromatico di rara bellezza...”

An owl helps a farmer and some crows reach a compromise over the rights to the wheat crop.

Frederick, the poet mouse, stores up something special for the long cold winter.

Frederick, the poet mouse, stores up something special for the long cold winter.

Jessica the frog befriends the animal that hatches from an egg she brought home, thinking it is a chicken.

A little chameleon is distressed that he doesn''t have his own color like other animals.

A little black fish in a school of red fish figures out a way of protecting them all from their natural enemies.

Histoire d''un petit poisson noir aventureux qui devient le pilote de tous les autres petits poissons rouges. Rassemblés ils font fuir les gros poissons et peuvent ainsi découvrir les beautés sous-marines