Leo Lionni

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1) Inch by inch

Author

Lionni, Leo

Series

Weston Woods read-along CD
An Astor book

Publisher

Weston Woods Studios

Pub. Date

c2006

Physical Desc

1 sound disc (5 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (unpaged : col. ill. ; 28 cm.)

Language

English

Description

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To keep from being eaten, an inchworm measures a robin's tail, a flamingo's neck, a toucan's beak, a heron's legs, and a nightingale's song.

2) Frederick

Author

Lionni, Leo

Series

Step into reading. Step 3

Publisher

Random House

Pub. Date

[2014]

Physical Desc

39 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.

Language

English

Description

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Frederick, the poet mouse, stores up something special for the long cold winter. "While other mice are gathering food for the winter, Frederick seems to daydream the summer away. When dreary weather comes, it is Frederick the poet-mouse who warms his friends and cheers them with his words".-Wilson Library Bulletin. Illustrated. A field mouse appears to be ignoring the coming of winter, but actually he is not.

3) Swimmy

Author

Lionni, Leo

Series

Pinwheel books

Publisher

Knopf/Pantheon

Pub. Date

1973, c1963

Physical Desc

[29] p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Language

English

Description

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

4) A color of his own

Author

Lionni, Leo

Language

English

Appears on list

Stick Season Book List

Description

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A little chameleon, distressed that he does not have a color of his own, is comforted to meet another chameleon who offers to stick around so at least the two of them will always be the same.

5) Alexander and the wind-up mouse

Author

Lionni, Leo

Series

Step into reading. Step 3
Dragonfly Books

Language

English

Description

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Alexander, the mouse, makes friends with Willy, a toy mouse, and wants to be just like him until he discovers that Willy is to be thrown away.

6) An extraordinary egg

Author

Lionni, Leo

Series

Step into reading. Step 3 book

Publisher

Random House

Pub. Date

[2015]

Physical Desc

39 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.

Language

English

Description

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

7) Matthew's dream

Author

Lionni, Leo

Publisher

Knopf

Pub. Date

c1991

Physical Desc

[32] p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.

Language

English

Description

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A visit to an art museum inspires a young mouse to become a painter.

8) Who?

Author

Lionni, Leo

Publisher

Alfred A. Knopf

Pub. Date

2014.

Edition

First board book edition.

Physical Desc

1 volume (unnumbered pages) : color illustrations ; 16 cm.

Language

English

Description

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Friendly mice discover the other animals who share their world and challenge readers to guess what they are.

9) Little Blue and Little Yellow

Author

Lionni, Leo

Publisher

Knopf

Pub. Date

2011

Edition

1st board book ed.

Physical Desc

1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 15 cm.

Language

English

Description

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Little Blue and Little Yellow are the best of friends, and when they reunite after not being able to find each other, they give each other such a big hug that they turn green. On board pages.

10) Mouse seasons

Author

Lionni, Leo

Publisher

Alfred A. Knopf

Pub. Date

[2022]

Physical Desc

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm

Language

English

Description

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"Two mice talk about where the seasons come from"--

11) Tillie and the wall

Author

Lionni, Leo

Publisher

Knopf

Pub. Date

c1989

Physical Desc

[30] p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.

Language

English

Description

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Unlike the other mice, who are incurious about the wall that has always been part of their world, Tillie is determined to find out what lies on the other side of the wall.