Leonard S. Marcus
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Sharing candid interviews with 13 top children's and young adult authors who discuss why their books have faced censorship, an historian and critic puts First Amendment challenges into historical context and examines the support network that protects and defends young people's rights.
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English
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A little rabbit who wants to run away tells his mother how he will escape, but she is always right behind him. This 75th anniversary edition includes the original picture book followed by a 32-page retrospective look with lively anecdotes, exclusive photographs, archival material, and an essay by noted children's book historian Leonard S. Marcus.
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Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
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English
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Randolph Caldecott is best known as the namesake of the award that honors picture book illustrations, and in this inventive biography, leading children's literature scholar Leonard Marcus examines the man behind the medal. In an era when the steam engine fueled an industrial revolution and train travel exploded people's experience of space and time, Caldecott was inspired by his surroundings to capture action, movement, and speed in a way that had...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"In Pictured Worlds, renowned historian Leonard S. Marcus shares his incomparable knowledge of this global cultural phenomenon in the definitive reference work on children's book illustration. The author of more than 25 award-winning books, Marcus here highlights an international roster of 101 artists of the last 250 years whose touchstone achievements collectively chart the major trends and turning points in the history of children's book illustration....
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Pub. Date
[1992]
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English
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"Leonard S. Marcus... has masterfully written about a fascinating woman who in her short life changed literature for the very young. I was throroughly enchanted."--Eric Carle
Nearly fifty years after her sudden death at the age of forty-two, Margaret Wise Brown remains a legend and an enigma. Author of Goodnight Moon, The Runaway Bunny, and dozens of other children's classics, Brown all but invented the picture book as we know it today. Combining...
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Pub. Date
1998.
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English
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Profiles six Caldecott award winning books and their authors, including Robert McCloskey's "Make Way for Ducklings, " Marcia Brown's "Cinderella, " Maurice Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are, " William Steig's "Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, " Chris Van Allsburg's "Jumanji, " and David Wiesner's "Tuesday."
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Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
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English
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"Filled with insights that span Helen Oxenbury's life -- from her early childhood through a career in children's books that started in the 1960s and is still going strong today -- here is an exquisitely designed and thoroughly entertaining celebration of one of the finest illustrators of our time."--
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Curious George original adventures volume 1
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English
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The adventures of the ingenious little monkey who left the jungle to live with the man in the yellow hat.
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Pub. Date
2001.
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English
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Describes the process by which several teams of authors and illustrators have created such picture books as "Louis the Fish, " "The Glorious Flight, " "The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, " "Sam and the Tigers, " and "The Magic School Bus Explores the Senses."
18) Minders of make-believe: idealists, entrepreneurs, and the shaping of American children's literature
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Pub. Date
2008.
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English
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English
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"Commemorating the 150th anniversary of one of the most beloved classics of children's literature, this illustrated edition presents Alice like you've never seen her before. In 1865, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, an Oxford mathematician and Anglican deacon, published a story about a little girl who tumbles down a rabbit hole. Thus was the world first introduced to Alice and her pseudonymous creator, Lewis Carroll. This beautiful new edition of Alice's...
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