Nicolas, Where Have You Been?
by Leo Lionni (Author)
Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade
Series: Read to a Child!: Level 2
Caldecott Honor winner Leo Lionni's beloved fable about the benefits of being open minded. When the young mouse Nicolas sets out across the great meadow alone in search of ripe red berries, he is grabbed up by the claws of a huge bird and carried high into the sky. But that is only the beginning of Nicolas's adventure. How he gets the berries he was hoping to find, and learns to trust the very creatures he thought were his enemies, makes this Leo Lionni fable one that young children will want to hear again and again.
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"A rich story both in appearance and theme. Even preschoolers can have a book discussion about this one." —Booklist "[Lionni] creates a world of adventure and consequence from a wonderously minimal set of objects and words." —Publishers Weekly "A fine, cheerful example of an ethical, philosophical idea cast as a delightful picture book." —The Horn Book Magazine "A delightful story. The book has potential for prompting classroom discussions." —School Library Journal From the Hardcover edition.
Leo Lionni
LEO LIONNI wrote and illustrated more than 40 picture books, including four Caldecott Honor books--Inch by Inch, Swimmy, Frederick, and Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse. He died in 1999 at the age of 89.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780375855498
Lexile Measure
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Guided Reading Level
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Publisher
Dragonfly Books
Publication date
March 20, 2010
Series
Read to a Child!: Level 2
BISAC categories
JUV002180 - Juvenile Fiction | Animals | Mice, Hamsters, Guinea Pigs, etc.
Library of Congress categories
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