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Teaching with Favorite Leo Lionni Books: Creative Activities for Exploring Friendship, Self-Esteem, Cooperation and Other Themes in These Beloved Books |
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Kathy M. Hollenbeck |
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Creative Activities for Exploring Friendship, Self-Esteem, Cooperation, and Other Themes in These Beloved BooksFrederick, Swimmy, Fish Is Fish...Use the timeless tales of Leo Lionni to help children learn ways to handle difficult situations, develop cooperative skills, and build self-esteem. This idea-packed resource of creative and engaging activities, games, art projects, and hands-on reproducibles will help children experience and extend the messages in favorite Leo Lionni books. Includes lessons that explore story elements, build vocabulary, teach descriptive writing, extend to math, science, social studies, and more.
About the Author
Kathleen M. Hollenbeck has written several picture books for children and numerous curriculum resource materials for teachers. She is the... |
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Swimmy |
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Leo Lionni |
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0394826205 |
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Illus. in color. "An exquisite picture book. A little fish, the lone survivor of a school of fish swallowed by a tuna, devises a plan to camouflage himself and his new companions."--(starred) School Library Journal.
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A little black fish in a school of red fish figures out a way of protecting them all from their natural enemies.
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Frederick |
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Leo Lionni |
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0394826140 |
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"A splendid achievement."--(starred) School Library Journal.
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"A splendid achievement."--(starred) School Library Journal.
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Color of His Own |
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Leo Lionni |
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Every animal has a color of its own. "Parrots are green, elephants are gray, pigs are pink." But chameleons change color wherever they go. "On lemons they are yellow. In the heather they are purple." One chameleon is not pleased with his changeable appearance. He thinks, "If I remain on a leaf, I shall be green forever, and so I too will have a color of my own." Of course, what he doesn't take into account is the changes wrought by autumn, and soon the green chameleon is yellow, then red, and then tumbled to the ground for the long black winter night. It isn't until he befriends another older, wiser chameleon that our hero begins to find inner peace, even as his outer surface is transformed again and again. Leo Lionni, children's book creator extraordinaire, author of such beloved picture books as Frederick, Alexander... |
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Inch by Inch |
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Leo Lionni |
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0688132839 |
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In this classic book, a winsome, winning inchworm is proud of his ability to measure anything under the sun.
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To keep from being eaten, an inchworm measures a robin's tail, a flamingo's neck, a toucan's beak, a heron's legs, and a nightingale's song.
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Girl with the Brown Crayon |
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Vivian Gussin Paley |
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0674354427 |
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From Booklist
Vivian Paley is a kindergarten teacher who won a MacArthur "genius" award for her work in her classroom at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools and for the books she has written about how children play and think and imagine. Now she describes her final year of teaching when the preschoolers focused on the classic picture books of Leo Lionni and related his stories to their own lives. One creative child, Reeny, becomes a kind of mentor to her teacher, helping Paley discover her own uncertainties and connections in Lionni's elemental tales. There's no pedagogical jargon here; no stages of abstract thinking. Paley shows how far kids can go when their learning is connected, uninterrupted, and interactive--if the teacher is open, and the stories are great. Hazel Rochman
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Skinnybones |
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Barbara Park |
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067988792X |
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From Publishers Weekly
Two comic novels portray the struggles of middle-grade boys trying to fit in. Ages 8-12. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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"Barbara Park is one of the funniest writers around"-Booklist
From the Paperback edition.
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Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse |
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Leo Lionni |
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0394829115 |
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Illus. in full color. "Eye-catching, boldly colored collages illustrate this classic 'grass is always greener' story in which a live mouse is envious of his mechanical counterpart."--Booklist.
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Alexander, a real mouse, wants to be a toy mouse like his friend Willy until he discovers Willy is to be thrown away.
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Little Blue and Little Yellow |
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Leo Lionni |
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-- The Horn Book
"An unusual, imaginative, stimulating, and appealing picture book."
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Little blue and little yellow share wonderful adventures. One day, they can't find one another. When they finally meet, they are overjoyed. They hug until they become green. But where did little blue and little yellow go? Are they lost?
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A Color of His Own |
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Leo Lionni |
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0375810919 |
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Every animal has a color of its own. "Parrots are green, elephants are gray, pigs are pink." But chameleons change color wherever they go. "On lemons they are yellow. In the heather they are purple." One chameleon is not pleased with his changeable appearance. He thinks, "If I remain on a leaf, I shall be green forever, and so I too will have a color of my own." Of course, what he doesn't take into account is the changes wrought by autumn, and soon the green chameleon is yellow, then red, and then tumbled to the ground for the long black winter night. It isn't until he befriends another older, wiser chameleon that our hero begins to find inner peace, even as his outer surface is transformed again and again. Leo Lionni, children's book creator extraordinaire, author of such beloved picture books as Frederick, Alexander... |
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Pezzettino |
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Leo Lionni |
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039483156X |
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Pezzettino lives in a world in which everyone is big and does daring and wonderful things. But he is small, just a “little piece,” which is the meaning of pezzettino in Italian. “I must be a piece of somebody. I must belong to someone else,” he thinks. How Pezzettino learns that he belongs to no one but himself is the joyous and satisfying conclusion to this beautiful picture book.
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Little Pezzettino is so small he is convinced he must be a piece of somebody else. A wise man helps him discover the truth.
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Let's Make Rabbits |
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Leo Lionni |
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0375815643 |
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A pair of scissors and a pencil, each using its own special skills, decides to make rabbits one morning in Leo Lionni's classic 1982 fable, reprinted in this sturdy board book edition for the youngest reader. The pencil-drawn rabbit and scissor-crafted collage bunny promptly become fast friends. When they grow hungry, they turn to their creators for paper carrots, which they enjoy heartily... until they come upon a real carrot (they know it's real because it casts a shadow). What happens next will surely enchant readers of all ages. The brilliant Lionni amuses himself--and his readers--with this playful send-up of the creative process. Each bunny is unique in its own right, skillfully and yet simply designed--the wonderful kind of images readers never forget. Four-time Caldecott Honor winner Lionni wrote more than 40... |
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Fish Is Fish |
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Leo Lionni |
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0394827996 |
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“With his accustomed subtle interplay of graphic wit, clear language, and plain thinking, Lionni wisely proves that a minnow’s grasp should not exceed his oxygen supply.”—The New York Times
"A superior book, simple, but eye-catching."--School Library Journal.
“If the picture book is a new visual art form in our time, Leo Lionni is certain to be judged a master of the genre.”—The New York Times
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"A superior book, simple, but eye-catching."--School Library Journal.
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Frederick and His Friends |
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Leo Lionni |
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0375822992 |
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When the late author and illustrator Leo Lionni was young, he answered the question, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" with a thoroughly unique reply: "The bell of the trolley car." He continued taking the nontraditional approach to life, writing his first children's book at age 50. He went on to write dozens more books, four of which appear in their complete original form in this lovely treasury, with a special tribute by Eric Carle. The collection includes the enduring, endearing favorites Frederick, Fish Is Fish, Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse, and Swimmy, all with Lionni's playful watercolors and bold paper cutouts, three of which were named Caldecott Honor Books. To have a sampling of four Lionni's enchanting creations together in one book is truly a gift--you'll be as happy as we are that he didn't... |
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The Greentail Mouse |
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Leo Lionni |
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0375823999 |
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The late Caldecott Honor artist Leo Lionni is well loved for his sweet, colorful paintings and thoughtful stories that always illuminate a sliver of human nature: the story of Frederick, the field mouse whose storytelling helps his family through winter; the little fish Swimmy who outsmarts a bully; the story of a minnow and a tadpole who form an unlikely alliance. The Greentail Mouse, originally published in 1973 and out of print for many years, is one of Lionni’s quirkier fables about a city mouse who visits a community of country mice and regales them with colorful tales of Mardi Gras, the one festive day in the city that is not "sad and dangerous." The mice become very excited, and decide to put on their own Fat Tuesday party, collecting natural materials like straw and lichen to create masks of ferocious animals... |
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