Five decades ago, graphic artist Leo Lionni was riding on a train between Manhattan and Greenwich, Conn., with his two young grandchildren, Pippo and Annie. When their behavior suddenly turned from ...

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 ...

Long before Nemo, there was Swimmy. And Swimmy, the little black fish who was orphaned when a swift and fierce tuna gobbled up all the little red fish who lived in that corner of the sea, is ...

Leo Lionni’s many animal fables are beloved by children everywhere. “An Extraordinary Egg” (Knopf, $15, 40 pp., ages 3-7) is Lionni’s 40th children’s book, and it is a gem. Three frogs live together ...

Leo Lionni is a favorite of every librarian and school teacher who works directly with young children because his writing is simple and poetic in nature and his illustrations are a patchwork of color ...

Between Worlds: The Art and Design of Leo Lionni is the first major American retrospective dedicated to the art and design work of groundbreaking modernist designer and children’s book illustrator Leo ...

STOCKBRIDGE — Do you remember Frederick, the field mouse who collects colors, rays of light and words while his family is busy, night and day, collecting nuts and corn for winter? To some, it might ...

Story books come to life on Saturdays this November at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. At the helm of it all is Therese Brady Donohue, founder and retired 34-year director of the Amherst ...

When my son, Ben, was a toddler, we would spend hours looking at Leo Lionni books. He would point to the paper illustrations and giggle at the big pieces of cheese, the mice in the grass, the mice in ...

One afternoon in 1959, as author-illustrator Leo Lionni describes that day, "a little miracle happened." Having boarded a commuter train bound from Manhattan for Connecticut, he faced the necessity of ...

A Color of His Own tells the story of a lonely chameleon who doesn't like to change colors all the time to blend in with his surroundings. He looks for a way to have his own color that doesn't change ...