Leo Lionni, 19 10, was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on May 5, 2000. His father is a Belgian Jewish businessman and his mother is a soprano. Because his home is near the art museum and his uncles are architects, painters and art collectors, he has been immersed in a rich artistic atmosphere since he was a child. /kloc-moved to America and Italy with his family since he was 0/3 years old. 1935 received a doctorate in economics. 1945, there was an anti-semitic wave in Europe, and they were forced to flee the United States with their families.

Leonie is a brilliant and unconstrained artistic genius, proficient in painting, sculpture, graphic design, printing, ceramics, photography ... and once served as the design director of Fortune magazine 10 years. During this period, he held solo exhibitions and design exhibitions in Europe and America for many times, and served as the president of the American Graphic Arts Society and the chairman of the 1953 international design conference. 1955 won the best advertising production designer award of the American Graphic Arts Association, and 1956 won the gold medal of the Architectural Alliance. 1984, when he was awarded the American Graphic Arts Association Award, he was evaluated as having deeply influenced at least three generations through his artistic creation, design creation, leadership and talent training in the design field, and creation of children's picture books. Humanism and rationalism run through his works.

Although Leonie was 49 years old when he started to create picture books, he started a new era of picture books. The New York Times once praised him like this: "If picture books are a new visual art of our time, then Leo Leoni is the master of this style."

His picture books have won numerous awards, among which One Inch Worm, Little Black Fish, Voldemort Afo and Alexander and Clockwork Mouse are named 196 1, 1964, 1968 and1977 respectively. 1999101,the master of picture books known as "the color magician", died in Italy at the age of 89.