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The New York Public Library. Exhibition open until September 7, features updated items that highlight the world of children’s literature. The New York Public Library has extended its popular children’s literature exhibition, The ABC Of It: Why Children’s Books Matter.

The Christian Science Monitor. By Steve Donoghue - February 21, 2017 Look back far enough in the life of virtually any American reader – or writer – alive today, and you're very likely to find the same small library of books, brightly-colored little things full of lively action [...]

Publishers Weekly. By Sally Lodge - February 17, 2017. Launched in October 1942, Little Golden Books defied the traditional model of children’s book publishing with its 25¢ price point, availability in chain and department stores, vivid cover and interior art, uniform trim size, [...]

New York Post. By Mackenzie Dawson - February 11, 2017. Golden Legacy: The Story of Golden Books by Leonard S. Marcus (Golden Books)

Bklyn Library. In celebration of Central Library's 75th birthday, this exhibition features a small selection of books from the Library's most valuable collection, the Hunt Collection.

Shelf Awareness. By Leonard Marcus - September 20, 2016. On your nightstand now: The stack of books by my desk is more like it. Dear Life by Alice Munro, for her fine eye for detail and mastery of tone.

Dulemba. By Elizabeth Dulemba and Leonard Marcus - September 15, 2016. I met Leonard Marcus years ago at the Decatur Book Festival and we've been friends ever since.

RNZ. August 13, 2016. Kim Hill talks to renowned historian, critic, and exhibition curator Leonard Marcus - one of the children's book world's liveliest writers and speakers.

NYU-Steinhardt. October 26, 2015. Leonard Marcus, an author and children’s literature scholar, has donated a collection of picture book biographies to the Constantine Georgiou Library and Resource Center for Children and Literature at NYU Steinhardt.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. By Karen MacPherson - November 4, 2013. When Leonard S. Marcus wrote his undergraduate honors thesis at Yale University on 19th-century American children's books, he had little sense that he was taking the first step in creating a unique career for himself.

The New York Times. By Edward Rothstein - June 20, 2013. The great green room and the purple crayon are here; so are the wild things and the poky puppy, Charlotte’s web and Alice’s wonderland, the very hungry caterpillar and the stinky cheese man.

The Wall Street Journal. By James Kennedy - January 11, 2013. As a kid, all I knew about my favorite authors were their names. "Isaac Asimov" sounded to me like a forbidding cyborg; "Ray Bradbury" could have been any boy in my neighborhood.

Kirkus. By Julie Danielson - April 19, 2012. Let me say for the record, though I feel sure it’s been said many times before, that Leonard Marcus is a national treasure.

The New York Times. By Rebecca Pepper Sinkler - March 22, 1998. Ursula Nordstrom was arguably the greatest editor of American children's books in this century -- a Maxwell Perkins for the Tot Department, as she called her bailiwick at Harper & Row.

Chicago Tribune. By Liz Rosenberg - March 29, 1992. Among American literary figures, Margaret Wise Brown is hardly a household name.

The New York Times. By Edith Kunhardt Davis - March 22, 1992. I DON'T remember Pearl Harbor or V-J Day, but I know exactly where I was in 1946, when I first held, caressed and gazed upon Margaret Wise Brown's new book, "Little Fur Family."