Best illustrated books all over the world
Leo Lionni’s The Alphabet Tree (1968) is a visual and conceptual experiment in storytelling through letters. The book presents tiny letters clinging to a tree, threatened by a fierce wind, and shows them gaining strength by forming words—and eventually sentences—with a message of peace. The illustrations use wide white spaces […]
Leo Lionni (1910–1999) was a pioneering author and illustrator of children’s books. Born in the Netherlands, he grew up partly in Italy and later moved to the United States in 1939, where he worked as an art director in advertising and for Fortune magazine. In 1962, Lionni began creating children’s […]