![]() I took a piece of blue paper and carefully tore it into small disks. The children followed the proceedings with intense expectancy. ![]() As he opened the magazine, he recalls, "a page with a design in blue, yellow, and green gave me an idea." "Wait," Lionni announced, "I'll tell you a story." Next, as he remembers, "I ripped the page out and tore it into small pieces. So it was that he happened to be carrying in his briefcase an advance copy of Life. Lionni, who was, in his late 40s, already an internationally recognized artist and graphic designer, had resigned recently from a ten-year interlude at Time, Inc.: for a decade, he had been the art director of Fortune magazine. As the youngsters vaulted from seat to seat, he recognized that "fast creative thinking" was in order. One afternoon in 1959, as author-illustrator Leo Lionni describes that day, "a little miracle happened." Having boarded a commuter train bound from Manhattan for Connecticut, he faced the necessity of entertaining two fellow travelers, his 5-year-old grandson and 3-year-old granddaughter. ![]() He earned a doctorate in economics from the University of Genoa, but began his career as an author and illustrator of children's books in 1959. ![]() ![]() About Leo LionniĪs a child growing up in Holland, Leo Lionni taught himself how to draw. For the month of November we will highlight the works of Leo Lionni. ![]()
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