Fish wants to be like his friend Frog and see the world!
Geraldine, the Music Mouse, discovers that the beautiful music she hears at night is coming from a giant mouse, made of cheese! If she shares her treasure her treasure trove of cheese with her hungry mice friends, will the music cease?
While the other field mice work to gather grain and nuts for winter, Frederick sits on a sunny rock by himself. “I gather sun rays for the cold dark winter days,” he tells them. Another day he gathers “colors,” and then “words.” And when the food runs out, it is Frederick, the dreamer and poet, whose endless store of supplies warms the hearts of his fellow mice, and feeds their spir…
Elephants are gray. Pigs are pink. Only the chameleon has no color of his own. He is purple like the heather, yellow like a lemon, even black and orange striped like a tiger! Then one day a chameleon has an idea to remain one color forever by staying on the greenest leaf he can find. But in the autumn, the leaf changes from green to yellow to red . . . and so does the chameleon. When another ch…
Everyone loves Willy the wind-up mouse, while Alexander the real mouse is chased away with brooms and mousetraps. Wouldn't it be wonderful to be loved and cuddled, thinks Alexander, and he wishes he could be a wind-up mouse too. In this gentle fable about a real mouse and a mechanical mouse, Leo Lionni explores the magic of friendship. Originally published in 1969, the Caldecott Honor-winni…
Mattew lives in a deary corner of a dusty attic. But a visit to a museum helps him look at his surroundings in a new way. In this magical fable, Leo Lionni shows that art can change the way we see the world.'