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Dutch-Italian artist and children's writer

"Tillie and the Wall" redirects here. For the American musical group, see Tilly and the Wall.

Leo Lionni (5 May – 11 October ) was an 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 , where he worked as an art director for several advertising agencies, and then for Fortune magazine.

He returned to Italy in and started writing and illustrating children's books.^[1] In , his book Inch by Inch was awarded the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award.

Family

Lionni was born in Amsterdam but spent two years in Philadelphia before moving to Italy during his teens.

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His father worked as an accountant and his mother was an opera singer. His father was assigned to an office in Italy part way through Leo's time in high school. He married Nora Maffi, the daughter of Fabrizio Maffi, a founder of the Italian Communist Party, and they