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One day a hungry robin saw an inchworm, green as an emerald, sitting on a twig.
One day a hungry robin saw an inchworm, green as an emerald, sitting on a twig.
About this book
To keep from being eaten, an inchworm measures a robin's tail, a flamingo's neck, a toucan's beak, a heron's legs, and a nightingale's song.
Themes & subjects
Juvenile fictionBirdsFictionCaterpillarsWormsCaldecott honor book
First published 1960About the author
Leo Lionni
5 May 1910 – 11 October 1999
Leo Lionni (May 5, 1910 – October 11, 1999) was an Italian-American writer and illustrator of children's books. Born in the Netherlands, he moved to Italy and lived there before moving to the United States in 1939, where he worked as an art director for several advertising agencies, and then for Fortune magazine. He returned to Italy in 1962 and started writing and illustrating children's books. In 1962, his book Inch by Inch was awarded the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award. [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Lionni)
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