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Is children's book publishing becoming politicized? Reporter Joanna Weiss invited Leonard to weigh in for this article posted on Politico in September 2022.

Leonard recently spoke with Canadian Broadcasting Co. host Piya Chattopadhyay about why Goodnight Moon continues to comfort and amaze.

Seventy-five years after publication, Goodnight Moon remains the quintessential American bedtime book, the tenderest of lullabies and most affirming of visions of a color-splashed and nurturing [...]

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 [...]