Leonard Weisgard
Birth date: December 13, 1916
Died: January 14, 2000
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The Little Island by Margaret Wise BrownAudio version so I am not seeing the colorful pictures.Setting: the small island where the water comes up and out, the wind, the sun, the animals sounds and birds.Flowers and sea creatures-spring has come. Now it's summer and other animals come to stay there f...
3.5 stars.Read the original edition from the 1950s. I'd love to see the new art in the one by the Dillons.I could probably only really describe this book's story as "quaint" and "cute," but boy is the writing top-notch. It really elevated the story from "twee fairytale defying all logic" to "enjoyab...
The story of a girls journey to help her family, and learn different is not bad.
Another Leonard Weisgard illustrated book -- I picked this to get from the library out of his illustrated work simply on title alone. The poem by O'Neill definitely has some nice moments; unfortunately it's dated and tells us that Indians are Red and Babies are Pink. But otherwise sweet and even goe...
Margaret Wise Brown is the author of many beloved childrens' classics, most famously Goodnight Moon. I recently reread that and several other of her books. This one, which I found today at the Cabrillo Lighthouse gift shop, was new to me. Perhaps because it has no associations with my childhood I lo...
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