Pezzettino

Lionni follows up his "Little Blue and Little Yellow" with this beautiful picture book--a fable that captures all the longing of a small child in a world of big people, illustrated with collage and small, colorful mosaic-like squares.

Pezzettino lives in a world in which everyone is big and does daring and wonderful things. But he is small, just a " little piece, " which is the meaning of pezzettino in Italian. " I must be a piece of somebody. I must belong to someone else, " he thinks. How Pezzettino learns that he belongs to no one but himself is the joyous and satisfying conclusion to this beautiful picture book.