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Leonard Weisgard

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born

December 13, 1916 in New Haven, CT, The United States

died

January 14, 2000

gender

male

website

http://www.leonardweisgard.com/index.htm

genre

Children's Books

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Leonard Weisgard, Caldecott award-winning illustrator of more than 200 children’s books was perhaps best known for his collaboration with the author Margaret Wise Brown.

Weisgard was born in New Haven, Connecticut but spent much of his early childhood in England, where his father originally came from.

His interest in the quality of children’s books began after his family moved back to the USA when he was 8. As a schoolboy in New York, he was dissatisfied with the books supplied by the public schools he attended. He found the illustrations monotonous and thought that the world could not be all that dreary and limited to only one color.

He went on to study art at the Pratt Institute and the New School for Social Research, where he was influence...more

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Average rating: 3.82 · 2,339 ratings · 379 reviews · 59 distinct works

	The Plymouth Thanksgiving 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Little Chicken 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1943 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Golden Christmas Tree by Leonard Weisgard, Jan Wahl 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2003	My rating:
	Whose Little Bird Am I? 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Clean Pig 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1952	My rating:
	The Funny Bunny Factory 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	Midnight Alarm: The Story of Paul Revere's Ride 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1968	My rating:
	Just Like Me 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1954	My rating:
	Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Norway by Virginia Haviland, Anita Riggio (Illustrations) 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1961 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Mr. Peaceable Paints 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:

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