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Leonard S. Marcus

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http://www.leonardmarcus.com/

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Children's Books, Nonfiction

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Leonard S. Marcus is one of the world's leading writers about children's books and their illustrations. His many books include The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy; Funny Business: Conversations with Writers of Comedy; Dear Genius; and others. His essays, interviews, and reviews appear in the New York Times Book Review, among other publications. Leonard S. Marcus lives in Brooklyn.

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Average rating: 4.07 · 1,752 ratings · 442 reviews · 37 distinct works

	Minders of Make-Believe: Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of American Children's Literature 3.86 avg rating — 138 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy 4.00 avg rating — 138 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Margaret Wise Brown: Awakened By the Moon 4.07 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 1992 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Golden Legacy: How Golden Books Won Children's Hearts, Changed Publishing Forever, and Became An American Icon Along the Way by Leonard S. Marcus, Eric Carle (Foreword) 4.21 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	Funny Business: Conversations with Writers of Comedy 3.57 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	A Caldecott Celebration: Seven Artists and their Paths to the Caldecott Medal 3.76 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Art of Reading: Forty Illustrators Celebrate RIF's 40thAnniversary: Forty Illustrators Celebrate RIF's 40th Anniversary by Leonard S. Marcus, Reading Is Fundamental 4.00 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	The Book of Children's Classics by Leonard S. Marcus (Compiler), Roald Dahl, Astrid Lindgren 4.91 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1997	My rating:
	75 Years of Children's Book Week Posters: CELEBRATING GREAT ILLUSTRATORS OF AMERICAN CHILDREN'S BOOKS (Horn Book Fanfare Honor Book) by Leonard S. Marcus, Children's Book Council 4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Pass It Down: Five Picture Book Families Make Their Mark 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	My rating:

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“Fantasy is storytelling with the beguiling power to transform the impossible into the imaginable, and to reveal our own “real” world in a fresh and truth-bearing light.”
― Leonard S. Marcus, The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy

tags: fairytales , fantasy , fiction , on-fiction

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