Archives

With censorship so much in the news, You Can’t Stay That! has proven to be one of 2021’s timeliest books for young readers. Now School Library Journal has also named it one of the [...]

Last year, Leonard, as Jury President, helped to organize and guide the first-ever international competition for picture book writing. Nearly 1,700 manuscripts were submitted by writers in five [...]

In a recent blog post, artist/author/publisher Sallie Lowenstein turns her attention to the long roster of books for children and teens that have made “good trouble” by upping the [...]

In his review of YOU CAN’T SAY THAT!, Michael Cart tells readers what book banners most remind him of

Find out what PW thinks will surprise many readers of Leonard’s new book about censorship and the literature for young people 

PEN America CEO Suzanne Nossel weighs in on Leonard’s new book in the New York Times Book Review.

In this blog post, Leonard writes about what he learned from interviewing 13 writers for children and teens whose books have touched a cultural nerve: You Can’t Say That: Who Should Censor Our [...]

A star from School Library Journal; a powerful comment from children’s author and poet Donna Marie Merritt: School Library Journal Review  This work is a compilation of conversations [...]

Leonard once again joined the dPictus.com team in culling through hundreds of recently published picture books from around the world. Here is the final list of 100 top choices for the Summer of 2021.

Hear Leonard, in conversation with book world guru Nigel Beale, trace the extraordinary career of Harper’s visionary publisher of “good books for bad children,” Ursula [...]