ABOUT THIS BOOK

Celebrate its 50th anniversary with the reissue of this classic.

Little Blue and Little Yellow are best friends, but one day they can’t find each other. When they finally do, they give each other such a big hug that they turn green! How they find their true colors again concludes a wonderfully satisfying story told with colorful pieces of torn paper and very few words. Leo Lionni launched his children’s book career in 1959 with this “unusual, imaginative, stimulating, and appealing picture book”—The Horn Book Magazine. This 50th-anniversary edition includes Lionni’s own explanation about how the book came to be during a train trip with his very young grandchildren. Virtually out of print for decades, it will join the other Lionni picture-book classics on the Alfred A. Knopf list.


ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Leo Lionni is the author and illustrator of four Caldecott Honor Books: Frederick, Swimmy, Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse, and Inch by Inch. He was honored in 2007 with the Society of Illustrators posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award. He was born in 1910 and died in 1999.


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