In this slender but engaging volume, Caldecott Medalist Simont
A Tree Is Nice retells and illustrates a true story told to him
by a friend. Picnicking in the country, a family spies a friendly
dog. The brother and sister play with him and even name him, but
their parents will not let them take Willy back to their city home.
＂He must belong to somebody,＂ their mother explains, ＂and they
would miss him.＂ Returning to the same spot the following weekend,
they once again see Willy, this time
內容簡介：
When a little dog appears at a family picnic, the girl and boy
play with him all afternoon, and they name him Willy. At day''s end
they say good-bye. But the dog has won their hearts and stays on
their minds.
The following Saturday the family returns to the picnic grounds
to look for Willy, but they are not alone -- the dogcatcher is
looking for him, too...
Caldecott Medalist Marc Simont''s heartwarming tale of a stray dog
who finds a home is told with appealing simplicity and grace.
關於作者：
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
newest book is The Stray Dog.
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