Leo Lionni wrote and illustrated more than 40 highly acclaimed children's books. He received the 1984 American Institute of Graphic Arts Gold Medal and was a four-time Caldecott Honor Winner for Inch by Inch, Frederick, Swimmy, and Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse. Leo Lionni died in October of 1999 at his home in Tuscany, Italy, at the age of 89.
A List of Leo Lionni's Publications
- Alexander and the Wind-up Mouse
- The Alphabet Tree
- The Biggest House in the World
- A Busy Year
- A Color of His Own
- Colors to Talk About
- Cornelius: A Fable
- An Extraordinary Egg
- Fish is Fish
- A Flea Story
- Frederick (named by the National Education Association one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children" based on a 2007 online poll[4])
- Geraldine, the Music Mouse
- The Greentail Mouse
- I Want to Stay Here! I Want to Go There!: A Flea Story
- In the Rabbitgarden
- Inch by Inch
- It's Mine
- Let's Make Rabbits: A Fable
- Let's Play
- Letters to Talk About
- Little Blue and Little Yellow (a New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book of the Year, 1959[5])
- Matthew's Dream
- Mouse Days: A Book of Seasons
- Mr. McMouse
- Nadarin
- Nicolas, Where Have You Been?
- Numbers to Talk About
- On My Beach There are Many Pebbles
- Parallel Botany
- Pezzettino
- Pulgada a Pulgada
- Six Crows: A Fable
- Swimmy (named by the National Education Association one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children" based on a 2007 online poll[4])
- Theodore and the Talking Mushroom
- Tico and the Golden Wings
- Tillie and the Wall
- Una Piedra Extraordinaria
- What?: Pictures to Talk About
- When?: Pictures to Talk About
- Where?: Pictures to Talk About
- Who?: Pictures to Talk About
- Words to Talk About