Books with author Marcia Leonard

Have you ever wondered how a picture book is made? The process is similar to the way we play a team sport, put on a play, or build a sandcastle-through collaboration. Writers and illustrators collaborate in a variety of ways. Sometimes they start as friends who choose to work together. Sometimes they become friends through the work they do. And sometimes they find that their feelings and styles change to the point where they can no longer work together. Each collaborative team and venture is unique. Side by Side focuses on five famous author/illustrator teams and favorite books they have published: - Arthur Yorinks/Richard Egielski & Louis the Fish - Alice Provensen/Martin Provensen & The Glorious Flight- Jon Scieszka/Lane Smith/Molly Leach & The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales - Julius Lester/Jerry Pinkney & Sam and the Tigers - Joanna Cole/Bruce Degen & The Magic School Bus Explores the Senses Personal anecdotes, edited manuscripts, sketches, and dummy book pages show the give-and-take that goes on between authors, illustrators, editors, and designers as they are working on projects they feel passionate about. By taking readers behind the scenes of these works in progress, Marcus gives us insight into how teamwork, cooperation, and friendship play a role in shaping the creative process, and will inspire readers to view their own team effort in fresh new ways.

Finely nuanced and continually revealing, Leonard S. Marcus’s interviews range widely over questions of literary craft and moral vision, as he asks thirteen noted fantasy authors about their pivotal life experiences, their literary influences and work routines, and their core beliefs about the place of fantasy in literature and in our lives. Includes interviews with * Lloyd Alexander * Franny Billingsley * Susan Cooper * Nancy Farmer * Brian Jacques * Diana Wynne Jones * Ursula K. Le Guin * Madeleine L’Engle * Garth Nix * Tamora Pierce * Terry Pratchett * Philip Pullman * Jane Yolen *

Andie Pandie was a sweet little brown teddy bear who lived in a toy store in Colorado. He had lived in the toy store as long as he could remember, which a very long time in teddy bear time was. Usually Andie Pandie was just as happy as a little brown teddy bear could be. He got to meet lots and lots of people when they came in the toy store. But after a while, Andie Pandie began to get a little sad because all the other toys went home with someone who loved them but Andie Pandie had to stay in the toy store.