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The beloved fable from four-time Caldecott Honor winner Leo Lionni!
Originally published in 1973, this is the offbeat fable of a city mouse who visits his peaceful country cousins and tells them about Mardi Gras in the city. The country mice are inspired to have their own Mardi Gras. And at first it is fun wearing their masks with sharp teeth and tusks and scaring each other, but after a while they begin believing that they really are ferocious animals.
Leo Lionni's winsome mice cavort across big double-page spreads of oil paintings and tell a story about what is real and what is not that is just right for preschoolers.
Author Notes
Leo Lionni was born in Amsterdam on May 5, 1910. He attended the University of Zurich and also earned a doctorate in Economics from the University of Genoa in 1935. He taught himself to draw by visiting museums.
After marrying Nora Maffi in 1931, Lionni moved to Milan, Italy, where he became known as a painter. In 1939 he moved to Philadelphia and began working in advertising design. Lionni held several positions in the artistic field including artistic director and design director. He also served as president of the American Institute of Graphic Arts.
Around 1960 Lionni moved back to Italy. His first of over forty children's books was Little Blue and Little Yellow. Other titles include Inch by Inch, Frederick, Swimmy, and Alexander and the Wind-up Mouse, all of which won a Caldecott Honor. In addition, he received the American Institute of Graphic Arts Gold Medal in 1984.
Lionni died on October 11, 1999 at his home in Tuscany, Italy at the age of 89.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (3)
Publisher's Weekly Review
A city mouse explains Mardi Gras to a group of country mice and they decide to stage their own celebration, complete with wild animal masks, in The Greentail Mouse by Leo Lionni. In a wordless spread, the artist indicates the mice's personalities transformed into the ferocious beasts with dark shades of gray and brown-a fitting juxtaposition to the holiday's otherwise festive tones. (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Horn Book Review
A colony of mice decide to have their own Mardi Gras celebration. Hidden behind fierce masks, they begin to believe that they really are ferocious animals. Their community is filled with hate and suspicion until a mouse from outside convinces them to take off their masks and become themselves again. The art is gorgeous, but this fable's message is unclear. From HORN BOOK Fall 2003, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Booklist Review
PreS^-Gr. 2. First published in 1973 and, according to the jacket-flap copy, "in print after years of unavailability," this picture book tells of a community of field mice who create masks for Mardi Gras, then decide to wear them all year. They begin to mistrust each other until a mouse from outside convinces them to put aside their suspicions--and their masks. Though the story and illustrations appear unchanged from the original book, the enhanced production quality improves both the sharpness of images and the vibrancy of colors in the artwork. Libraries with battered or discarded copies may want to reorder. Carolyn Phelan
