Leslie McGuire

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About Leslie McGuire

I have been a children's book writer, illustrator and pop-up book designer for 25 years, and have published over 200 titles that include juveniles, pop-up books, YA novels, (fiction and non-fiction) and mid-grade series books for publishers such as Random House, Golden Books, Disney, Intervisual Books, Reader's Digest, Harper Collins, Macmillan, Fawcett, Grosset and Dunlap, etc. (Please visit my website to see my full title list, resume, awards and review clips which is at www.lesliemcguire.com). I have received the following awards: Parent's Choice Award: "Big Dan's Moving Van"-- Random House; American Bookseller's Association Pick of The List plus the Time-Life Kid's Selection: "Good Night Little Bear"--Reader's Digest, Teacher's Choice Award 2001: Hooked on Math, Master the Facts.
I have also been an editor and Creative Director in children's book publishing (Golden Books, Simon & Schuster, Intervisual Books, and Disney) and managing editor for two landscape architecture magazines. You can find many of my titles, both used and new, at Amazon by just typing in my name.
I have illustrated six titles: Charlotte Zolotow's, A Rose a Bridge and a Wild Black Horse; as well as five titles which I both wrote and illustrated: "This Farm is a Mess", "Nibbles Takes a Nibble,"Teddy Bear's Circus Train", Ann's Hat", and "Ann's Big Muffin".
As a teacher of Writing and Illustrating Children's Books, and a speaker at the forum on Guided Dreams , both for the University of California,
Irvine, I have been given the opportunity to expand on and share my philosophy of writing for children as well as explain those thoughts to many interested and talented people.

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Big Frank's Fire Truck (Pictureback(R)) Aug 27, 2014

by Leslie McGuire , Joe Mathieu

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Big Frank tells young readers all about firefighting and the many other important jobs firefighters do: fire safety training, fire inspection, helping at accident scenes, and more. It's all in a day's--and night's--work for our firefighting friend and his crew. The detailed full-color illustrations in this paperback book will fascinate readers.

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Big Dan's Moving Van (Pictureback(R)) Aug 27, 2014

by Leslie McGuire

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Vehicle-obsessed boys and girls can ride along with Big Frank and the rest of the firefighting crew on one busy day as they race to the scene of an accident, teach schoolchildren about fire safety, and battle a raging brush fire. Detail-packed full-color illustrations will fascinate young readers.

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WANDERING THE WORMHOLES (BOOK 2) (CASTLE WORKS) May 14, 2013

by Leslie McGuire

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Jillian and Jeremy, after their many death-defying attempts in Book One, to find the castle and finally get home to Maine, are suddenly faced with the Wormholes that snake through the eleven dimensions of the universe. Sliding from one frightening realm to another they are buffeted by particle storms and bolts of hysterical energy while trying to stay themselves. They use any trick they can find to keep from being transformed, forever into some ridiculous mish-mash of animal vegetable and mineral. In the meantime, Jillian’s Grandmother, an Indian medicine woman, comes to guide them and they get to meet some very strange historical figures. They also find out what their special gifts mean to those who need them most. But when will they get home?

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FALLING INTO THE UNDERWORLD (BOOK1) (CASTLE WORKS) Mar 16, 2013

by Leslie McGuire

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This story is about two unhappy young people who get sucked into a wormhole. They become lost in the realms belonging to the particles and membranes that form the basis of our own world. But the denizens of all these realms and worlds don’t obey all the rules—or obey any rules at all for that matter. In their search for a way home, they get caught in a terrifying castle. The Castle, which is carved inside a huge diamond, is where magic and reality, past and future, along with science and continuous transformation, are able to co-exist.

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