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Marc Simont

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Born: November 22 1915

Died: 1212 07 20132013

Artist, political cartoonist, and illustrator of more than a hundred children's books, 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.

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Marc Simont

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Books from Marc Simont

Nate the Great

In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson

A Tree Is Nice

The 13 Clocks

The Stray Dog

Nate the Great Goes Undercover

Nate the Great and the Big Sniff

Nate the Great and the Missing Key

Nate the Great and the Sticky Case

Nate The Great And The Lost List

Nate the Great and the Halloween Hunt

Nate the Great and the Stolen Base

The Happy Day

The Philharmonic Gets Dressed

Nate the Great and the Phony Clue

How to Dig a Hole to the Other Side of the World

Top Secret

The Goose That Almost Got Cooked

The Beetle Bush

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