Leonard S. Marcus

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Louisiana

Provides a collection of forty illustrations picked by the nonprofit literacy organization Reading Is Fundamental in order to celebrate the power and joys of reading in young children and includes works by Henry Cole, Mary Azarian, Lois Ehlert, David Kirk, David McPhail, Jerry Pinkney, Chris Raschka, and so many others.

The Art of Reading

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Alabama

A portrait of the nineteenth-century English artist and illustrator of children's books, which is complemented by previously unpublished drawings.

Randolph Caldecott: the Man Who Could Not Stop Drawing

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Pennsylvania

Awakened by the Moon

Margaret Wise Brown, the author of Goodnight Moon and dozens of other children's classics, all but invented the picture book as we know it today. Combining poetic instinct with a profound empathy for small children, she knew of a child's need for security, love, and a sense of being at home in the world and she brought that unique tenderness to the page. Yet these were comforts that eluded her. Brown's youthful presence and professional success as an editor, bestselling author, and self-styled impresario masked an insecurity that left her restless and vulnerable. In this moving biography, Marcus portrays Brown's complex character and her tragic, seesaw life. Her literary achievement and groundbreaking discoveries about small children's emotional needs were offset by tormented romances including a passionate relationship with Michael Strange, the celebrity socialite once married to John Barrymore.

Margaret Wise Brown

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Conversations with Writers of Fantasy

"A rich resource that will be consulted as frequently by children's literature professionals and by genre fans themselves." -- Booklist (starred review)

What kind of child were you? When did you decide you wanted to be a writer? Why do you write fantasy? 

"Fantasy," writes Leonard S. Marcus, "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." Few have harnessed this power with the artistry, verve, and imagination of the authors encountered in this compelling book. How do they work their magic? 

Finely nuanced and continually revealing, Leonard S. Marcus's interviews range widely over questions of literary craft and moral vision, as he asks thirteen noted fantasy authors about their pivotal life experiences, their literary influences and work routines, and their core beliefs about the place of fantasy in literature and in our lives. Back matter includes an index.

The Wand in the Word

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Alaska

The Story of Golden Books

Back in print, the fascinating history of Little Golden Books, in celebration of their 75th anniversary in 2017! With a Foreword by Eric Carle. Eminent children's historian Leonard Marcus' Golden Legacy chronicles the fascinating story of the creation, marketing, and worldwide impact of Little Golden Books, the most popular children's books of all time. Launched during the dark days of WWII, Golden Books such as The Poky Little Puppy were an instant sensation. Hallmarked by their superlative quality yet affordable to nearly all, they changed the cultural landscape and mirrored our changing postwar culture: the powerful influence of television, the post-Sputnik renaissance in American science education, and the birth of the civil rights movement. Lavishly illustrated with the iconic Golden Book covers and colorful artwork generations of children have pored over, Golden Legacy is a compelling tale of mavericks, innovators, and renowned authors and illustrators. . . a stirring celebration of the humble books in which we scrawled our names, with the cardboard cover and the shiny gold-foil spine.

Golden Legacy

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A Portrait of Madeleine L'Engle in Many Voices

"A book of interviews with people who knew Madeleine L'Engle, author of the children's classic A WRINKLE IN TIME, in the many facets of her life"--

Listening for Madeleine

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Like new aside from page marker shows some wear 

46 Best-Loved Stories

A Family Treasury of Little Golden Books

Mary Norton

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Illinois

Miniature people who live in an old country house by borrowing things from the humans are forced to emigrate from their home under the clock.

The Borrowers

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Iowa

Rhode Island

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

New York

Classic award winning children’s story of the small folks living under the floor.

North Carolina

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New Jersey

Read once, no crease on spine or bent pages 

California

Complete set with bio like new condition 
These books have never been read

Mammoth Paperback (8 to 10 lbs)

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Florida

50 Timeless Rhymes from 50 Celebrated Cartoonists

Presents fifty traditional nursery rhymes in comic book format, with illustrations by well-known cartoonists.

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Leonard S. Marcus (Editor)

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