![]() ![]() The results are ethereal and soft-his mice are textured with the fuzzy edges of fine, handmade paper, and his seaweed forests look like lace. His characters are brought to life via paper cutouts (including cutouts of painted paper), as well as inventive manipulations of paint, including stamping and pressing. ![]() ![]() Lionni, who was a painter and sculptor, produced some of the most beautiful illustrations I’ve ever seen. A close second to Frederick might be Swimmy, the story of a little black fish who is not like the other red fish in the nearby schools, who teaches the other fish around him to be brave, so that they might explore the wonders of the ocean together. Leo Lionni wrote and illustrated more than forty children’s books in his lifetime, but the one which is the most meaningful to me might be his most famous: Frederick, the story of a little field mouse who keeps his family warm in the middle of a cold winter, by reciting poetry that is so beautiful and so evocative of sunnier seasons. ![]()
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