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