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Celebrating 81 Years of Caldecott Award Winners With a Classic Picture Book Swimming in Both Sense and Sensitivity by Leo Leonni
Swimmy By Leo Lionni Today the Snuggery is celebrating the picture book artistry of Leo Lionni. Mr. Leonni won four Caldecott Honor medals for his books – “Inch by Inch” in 1961, “Swimmy” in 1964, “Frederick” in 1968 and “Alexander and the Wind-up Mouse” in 1970. If you and your young reader have missed…
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Frederick by Leo Lionni Honored posthumously in 2007 with the Society of Illustrators Lifetime Achievement Award, Leo Lionni’s homage to Aesop’s fable of “The Ant and the Grasshopper” has a simple and central moral theme, as do many of his books, interwoven with his use of collage in this Caldecott Honor Book. It is…
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Inch by Inch By Leo Lionni We have had our hands deep in the soil this year at our vineyard/orchard/ farm and so when I recently heard John Denver’s version of Dave Mallett’s The Garden Song, it put me in mind of this classic picture book by Leo Lionni. The song sung by John…
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