Book Awards & Distinctions
for Leonard S. Marcus
13 Total Book Awards
Comics Confidential: Thirteen Graphic Novelists Talk Story, Craft, and Life Outside the Box (3)

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Nonfiction Selection, 2016

Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2025
Commended, 2017
Author Talk (2)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2001

Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2025
Commended, 2001
Randolph Caldecott: The Man Who Could Not Stop Drawing (2)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2014

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Biography Selection, 2013
You Can't Say That!: Writers for Young People Talk about Censorship, Free Expression, and the Stories They Have to Tell (2)

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
Contemporary Concerns Selection, 2022

SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2024
Selection, 2021
Earthrise: The Story of the Photograph That Changed the Way We See Our Planet (1)

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Nonfiction Selection, 2025
Mr. Lincoln Sits for His Portrait: The Story of a Photograph That Became an American Icon (1)
Side by Side: Five Favorite Picture-Book Teams Go to Work (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2002
The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy (1)

Horn Book Fanfare, 2001-2024
Selection, 2006