Leonard Filgate is best known for his illustration art for the series of children’s books and images he and his wife (Susan Yost-Filgate) created, Rip Squeak and Friends™. (See Rip Squeak.com.) As the artist creator of Rip Squeak®, Leonard has been honored as the featured illustrator for the 2003 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books and with a one-man show at the Delaware Art Museum (DelArt.org) in Wilmington Delaware. Leonard is also included as one of the children’s book illustrators in the Simon Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance’s “Every Picture Tells a Story” exhibition that was described as “a celebration of diversity and tolerance as portrayed in illustrated children’s books.” (The show has also traveled to the Bremen Museum in Atlanta, the Spertus Museum in Chicago, and the Indianapolis Children’s Museum.) He is the illustrator of five children’s books, an activity book, and is the featured artist and illustra