by Leonard S. Marcus, Farrar Straus Giroux, 2023; Candlewick Press, 2021 .
This month’s post brings you two books by acclaimed expert on children’s books and author of numerous award-winning biographies, Leonard S. Marcus. You Can’t Say That! delves into the timely topic of censorship of books for young people. Mr. Lincoln Sits for His Portrait, written for middle graders and up, is a fresh biography of Abraham Lincoln that examines his love of the technology of his time–especially photography–and the making of an iconic image of a beloved President and his 10-year-old son Tad.