This author/illustrator was a successful artist in Italy and earned a degree in economics before moving to the US in 1939 and working as art director for magazines and as head of the graphic design dept. at Parsons School of Design. On a train trip with his grandchildren, he tore up a magazine and created a story, which led to his later career as a children's author. He is one of the very few who had four books listed as Caldecott Honor Books for their illustrations. His collage story Swimmy, about little fish who join together to form one big fish to avoid being eaten, is one of his most famous. This is Leo Lionni.
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