Leo Lionni's Friends Matching Game

Featuring the beloved characters from Frederick, Swimmy, Fish is Fish, A Color of His Own, and more of Leo Lionni's bestselling picture books, this 40-piece matching game will charm both children and their parents (who grew up with Lionni's books too!).

Leo Lionni's Friends Matching Game works your child's memory and language skills with 40 matching pieces, featuring 20 illustrations of Swimmy, Alexander, Frederick, the Extraordinary Egg, and more characters and objects from Leo Lionni's bestselling children's books. The pieces are stacked in four piles with a bellyband inside the box so you can open it and see the sturdy pieces and bright, beloved illustrations.

Play strengthens focus, concentration, and memory skills

Builds hand-eye coordination and dexterity

Includes 40 sturdy 2 3/8" x 2 3/8" square cards with rounded corners

Ideal gift for baby showers, birthdays, Christmas, Hanukkah, and Easter

Leo Lionni wrote and illustrated more than 40 highly acclaimed children’s books. He received the 1984 American Institute of Graphic Arts Gold Medal and was a four-time Caldecott Honor Winner—for Inch by Inch, Frederick, Swimmy, and Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse. Leo Lionni died in October of 1999 at his home in Tuscany, Italy, at the age of 89.