Leo Lionni
Leo Lionni (May 5, 1910 – October 11, 1999) was an Italian-American writer and illustrator of children's books. Born in the Netherlands, he moved to Italy and lived there before moving to the United States in 1939, where he worked as an art director for several advertising agencies, and then for Fortune magazine. He returned to Italy in 1962 and started writing and illustrating children's books. In 1962, his book Inch by Inch was awarded the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award. [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Lionni)
Works (50)

Swimmy
March 1996

Frederick
June 1963

A Colour of his own
March 23, 1993

Inch by inch
1960

Little blue and little yellow
1959

Alexander and the wind-up mouse
October 1999

Fish is fish
1996

An Extraordinary Egg
1994

It's mine!
1986

The biggest house in the world
1968

The Alphabet Tree
October 24, 1990

Pezzettino
1975

Six Crows
1988

Tillie and the wall
February 20, 1991

Tico and the Golden Wings
October 2001

Matthew's Dream
1991

Cornelius
March 22, 1994

Theodore and the talking mushroom
1971

Frederick's fables
1985

A Busy Year
1992

Nicolas, where have you been?
1987

Leo Lionni favorites
1994

Frederick and his friends
1989

A Flea Story
July 12, 1977

Let's make rabbits
1982

The Greentail Mouse
1973

Mr. McMouse
1992

On my beach there are many pebbles
1961

I want to stay here! I want to go there!
1978

Geraldine, the music mouse
1979

What?

Parallel botany
1977

When?

Between worlds
1997

Where?
1983

Frederick und seine Mäusefreunde

Xiaoduo he hui shuo hua de mo gu

Shi jie shang zui da de fang zi

Who?

Colors, numbers, letters
2010

In the rabbitgarden
1975

E yu Geniliu

Zhe shi wo de!

Let's play
2003

Numbers
March 12, 1985

Colors
March 12, 1985

Leo Lionni's Little Mice Tales
January 2003

Pequeño azul y pequeño amarillo

A Little Book About Opposites

Leo Lionni at the Library of Congress