Visit us on the Web! and librarians, for a variety of teaching tools, visit us at The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition of this work as follows: ,Lionnij Leo. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 1963.Dragonfly Books with the colophon is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc.

Published in the United States by Dragonfly Books,an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. The book won a 1968 Caldecott Honor for its illustrations 2 and is listed in the literary reference book 1001 Children's Books You Must. The book is about a group of field mice who are gathering food, except the titular mouse who prefers to store up something special for the winter instead. You can work on important comprehension skills as you read as well as rich vocabulary. Frederick is a 1967 children's book by Leo Lionni. 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. Frederick by Leo Lionni is a sweet book for second graders, and if you are needing materials to use with the text, this is the set to get. His picture books are distinguished by theirenduring moral themes, graphic simplicity, and brilliant use ofcollage^ and include four Caldecott Honor Books: Inch by Inch,Frederick, Swimmy, and Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse.Hailed as 'a master of the simple fable' by the Chi&tgo Tribune, hedied in 1999 at the age of 89.Ĭopyright © 1963 by Leo Lionni, copyright renewed 191)1 by Leo LioimiĪll rights reserved. Leo Lionni ( October 11, 1999) was an Italian-American writer and illustrator of children's books.

He was the recipient of the 1984American Institute of Graphic Arts Gold Medal and was honoredposthumously in 2007 with the Society 6f Illustrators LifetimeAchievement Award. Leo Li6nni,'an internationally known designer, illustrator, andgraphic artist, was born in Holland and studied in Italy until hecame to the United State».in 1939.

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