Leonard Joseph Weisgard (December 13, 1916 – January 14, 2000)[1] was an American writer and illustrator of more than 200 children's books.
He won the 1948 Caldecott Medal for U.S. picture book illustration, recognizing The Little Island, written by Brown.
Altogether, Weisgard illustrated at least 14 of Brown's books, including two that were published posthumously.
)[2] Writer Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was a Newbery Medal runner-up in 1956 for The Secret River, which Weisgard illustrated.
Weisgard married Phyllis Monnot in 1951 and moved to Copenhagen, Denmark, with her and their three children in 1969.