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Tag: Leo Lionni

July 22, 2024 by Betsy Bird

Fuse 8 n’ Kate: Little Blue and Little Yellow by Leo Lionni

With heroes that are essentially paint swatches, we discuss nursery rhymes, gender in language, and what happens when someone calls us a "shining beam of delight" in our letters section.

September 16, 2019 by Betsy Bird

Fuse 8 n’ Kate: Swimmy by Leo Lionni

In this episode I discover that no one has ever written a fun background story on how Leo Lionni came up with this book, we consider whether or not Lionni was good at making art with cut potatoes, whether fish have eyebrows, and how hard it is to say the term "Mom pun" repeatedly.

February 18, 2019 by Betsy Bird

Fuse 8 n’ Kate: Frederick by Leo Lionni

The old Ant and the Grasshopper fable got the Lionni touch back in 1967 when the four time Caldecott Honor winner chose to put a new spin on an old classic. So how successful was this book in the end? Is it a product of its age (the tune in and drop out 60s) or something that stands the test of time?

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Top of the morning to you, froggies!  I had one heckuva weekend, I tell you.  Actually it was just one heckuva Saturday.  First there was the opening of the new Bank Street Bookstore location here in NYC.  I was one of the local authors in attendance and, as you can see from this photograph taken […]

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Happy Monday to you, everyone.  I’ve plenty of tasty treats to bestow on the good little boys and girls this morning.  First off, the only thing that I can figure when I look at the baby versions of various Harry Potter characters by Artful Babies is that whomever the creator is they must spend a […]

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