Synopses & Reviews
Un Árbol Es Hermoso
"Los árboles son hermosos", dice Janice May Udry en éste, su primer libro para niños, y nos aclara que es bello tener aunque sea un solo árbol. Los alegres dibujos de Marc Simont acentúan el encanto infantil de las palabras de la autora y muestran cuán hermosos son los árboles.
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Un Arbol Es Hermoso "Los arboles son hermosos," dice Janice May Udry en este, su primer libro para ninos, y nos aclara que es bello tener aunque sea un solo arbol. Los alegres dibujos de Marc Simont acentuan el encanto infantil de las palabras de la autora y muestran cuan hermosos son los arboles.
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This high-quality Spanish-language book can be enjoyed by fluent Spanish speakers as well as those learning the language, whether at home or in a classroom.
Un rbol Es Hermoso ""Los rboles son hermosos"", dice Janice May Udry en ste, su primer libro para ni os, y nos aclara que es bello tener aunque sea un solo rbol. Los alegres dibujos de Marc Simont acent an el encanto infantil de las palabras de la autora y muestran cu n hermosos son los rboles.
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Briefly describes the value of a tree. Spanish language edition.
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This Caldecott Medal winner shows, with poetic simplicity and beauty, why trees are so wonderful. Full color.
Synopsis
Un Árbol Es Hermoso
"Los árboles son hermosos", dice Janice May Udry en éste, su primer libro para niños, y nos aclara que es bello tener aunque sea un solo árbol. Los alegres dibujos de Marc Simont acentúan el encanto infantil de las palabras de la autora y muestran cuán hermosos son los árboles.
About the Author
Mrs. Udry's first book,
A Tree Is Nice, illustrated by Marc Simont, won the 1957 Caldecott Award for the most distinguished American picture book. Mrs. Udry is also the author of
Glenda,
Let's Be Enemies (also illustrated by Maurice Sendak),
Mary Ann's Mud Day,
The Mean Mouse and Other Mean Stories, and
Thump and Plunk.
Marc Simont was born in 1915 in Paris. His parents were from the Catalonia region of Spain, and his childhood was spent in France, Spain, and the United States. Encouraged by his father, Joseph Simont, an artist and staff illustrator for the magazine L'Illustration, Marc Simont drew from a young age. Though he later attended art school in Paris and New York, he considers his father to have been his greatest teacher.
When he was nineteen, Mr. Simont settled in America permanently, determined to support himself as an artist. His first illustrations for a children's book appeared in 1939. Since then, Mr. Simont has illustrated nearly a hundred books, working with authors as diverse as Margaret Wise Brown and James Thurber. 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.
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. Mr. Simont and his wife have one grown son, two dogs and a cat. They live in West Cornwall, Connecticut. Marc Simont's most recent book is The Stray Dog.