Monsieur Marceau: Actor Without Words

This year was the year for fantastic picture book biographies and Monsieur Marceau was one of my favorites. Leda Schubert tells, in simple words, and Gerard Dubois depicts, in quiet pictures, the story of a man with no words. It's all the details of the story—how Marceau loved to talk when he was not performing, the story of Marceau leading Jewish children to safety during the war—that the book draws its strength.