Leonard Marcus Email & Phone Number

New York, United States

Co-teach an innovative course on children's literature and child development, now in its fourth year. My co-instructor is a childhood development specialist at the NYU Child Study Center and my appointment is through the NYU Medical School, though our students are undergraduates of all the spectrum, from film-making to pre-med.

exhibitions adviser, National Center for Children's Illustrated Literature

The Annotated Phantom Tollbooth (October 2011)Golden Legacy: How Golden Books Won Children's Hearts, Changed Publishing Forever, and Became an American Icon Along the Way (September 2007)

Amherst, Ma

chair of the museum's exhibitions and collections committees; Carle Honors committee founding member

Brooklyn, New York

Books include: Margaret Wise Brown: Awakened by the Moon; Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom; Show Me a Story: Why Picture Books Matter; The Annotated Phantom Tollbooth; Helen Oxenbury: A Life in Illustration; 100 Years of Children's Book Week Posters; Minders of Make-Believe: Comics Confidential; The Wand in the Word; Maurice Sendak: A Celebration of the Artist and His Life; Randolph Caldecott: The Man Who Could Not Stop Drawing; Listening for Madeleine: A Portrait of Madeleine L'Engle in Many Voices; The Kairos Novels: The Library America Edition of the Writings of Madeleine L'Engle; and others. Regular reviewer for Parenting Magazine (1987-2008); Freelance reviewer for NY Times Book Review (1984-present) Curator: the NY Public Library's landmark exhibition The ABC of It: Why Children's Books Matter. Exhibitions at the Eric Carle Museum about Margaret Wise Brown; graphic novels; the image of the child in contemporary picture books; Jules Feiffer; Bernard Waber; Leonard Weisgard. Exhibitions at the National Center for Children's Illustrated Literature on Garth Williams; Alice and Martin Provensen; Golden Books. Founding trustee: the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art; exhibitions advisor: the National Center for Children's Illustrated Literature; advisory board: The Rabbit HOle.

Reviewed up to 200 children's books each year in this monthly magazine read by 2 million subscribers. Created the magazine's annual Reading Magic Awards for excellence in children's literature and directed the awards for 20 years. Published feature interviews with Maurice Sendak, Robert McCloskey, Helen Oxenbury, and others.

Mfa, Writers Workshop In Poetry

Ba, History, Literature

Activities and Societies: Yale Literary Magazine