Most Popular Books by Leo Lionni

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.

A collection of fourteen of Lionni's previously published books, presented in the same format.

A group of mice experience the weather and activities characteristic of each month of the year.

"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.

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.

Tili, es una pequeña ratoncita muy inquisitiva y despierta. Ella vive en un territorio que parece una pradera, la cual se encuentra rodeada por una pared enorme, que encierra completamente el su mundo, sin que se vea algún punto por donde se pueda traspasar esta tapia y llegar a descubrir qué hay más allá de ella. Tili, como cualquier ser inteligente de este planeta, se pasa el día entero meditando, pensando e imaginando en el maravilloso mundo que puede existir afuera de aquel enorme y limitador muro; ella desea encontrar la forma de ir tras la pared. Hasta este punto, el relato se parece al antiquísimo cuento de la rana en el pozo de agua; sin embargo, íMira lo que encuentra nuestra ratoncita cuando cruza al otro lado!

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...”

Cornelius, a crocodile who walks upright, sees things no crocodile has ever seen before.

Alexander, a real mouse, wants to be a toy mouse like his friend Willy until he discovers Willy is to be thrown away.

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.