Internationally acclaimed for its grace, humor, and beauty, Marc Simont's art is in collections as far afield at the Kijo Picture Book Museum in Japan, but the honor he holds most dear is having been chosen as the 1997 Illustrator of the Year in his native Catalonia. He won a Caldecott Honor in 1950 for illustrating Ruth Krauss's The Happy Day, and in in 1957 he was awarded the Caldecott Medal for his pictures in A Tree is Nice, by Janice May Udry.

Simont has illustrated nearly a hundred books, working with authors as diverse as Margaret Wise Brown and James Thurber. His first illustrations for a children's book appeared in 1939. Simont settled in America permanently, determined to support himself as an artist. Though he later attended art school in Paris and New York, he considers his father to have been his greatest teacher. Encouraged by his father, Joseph Simont, an artist and staff illustrator for the magazine L'Illustration, Marc Simont drew from a young age. His parents were from the Catalonia region of Spain, and his childhood was spent in France, Spain, and the United States. Cows and babies can nap in the shade of a tree. If you have a tree, you can climb up its trunk, roll in its leaves, or hang a swing from one of its limbs. Simont's watercolors perfectly complement the poetic simplicity of the text, allowing the reader room to engage in his or her own imaginative embroiderings about trees (Children's Books and Their Creators).

'A radiant and buoyant picture book.' - The Horn BookĪ Tree Is Nice is a classic tale about the beauty of the everyday world. Reading Level: 2.2 Interest Level: Lower Grades Point Value: 0.5 Physical Information: 0.14' H x 6.27' W x 10.99' (0.20 lbs) 32 pagesįeatures: Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product Juvenile Nonfiction | Concepts - Senses & Sensation Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature - Trees & Forests WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guaranteeīinding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & EditionsĪnnotation: This Caldecott Medal-winning book shows, with poetic simplicity and beauty, why trees are so good to have around as it describes the delights to be had in, with, or under a tree. Contributor(s): Udry, Janice May (Author), Simont, Marc (Illustrator)

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