Leslie Holt Morrill (February 10, 1934 - June 23, 2003) was an artist, educator, and illustrator.
Leslie Holt Morrill, an award-winning children's book illustrator who moved to the Washington area in 1991 and taught illustration at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and the Maryland College of Art and Design in Silver Spring.
Mr. Morrill illustrated more than 100 books and also worked in other types of media, including puzzles.
His best-known works are "The World Treasury of Children's Literature," a multi-volume series; the "Bunnicula" series by James Howe; and the "Judge Benjamin, Superdog" series by Judith Whitelock McInerney.
He was a native of Nashua, N.H., and a graduate of Tufts University. He did additional studies in fine arts at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
He served in the Air Force in the mid-1950s and then lived in New England.
He was a member of the Creative Partners Gallery in Bethesda, where he and his daughter had a joint exhibition of landscape paintings.
