Un día feliz: The Happy Day (Spanish edition), A Cladecott Honor Award Winner - Softcover

Krauss, Ruth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0064434141 ISBN 13: 9780064434140

Publisher: HarperCollins Espanol, 1995

Synopsis

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.

Esta nevando. Todos los animales están durmiendo en sus hogares. Ellos despiertan. Abren sus ojos. Ellos huelen. Ellos corren. ¿Qué van a encontrar? Un cuento de los animales del bosque, ya que despiertan de su letargo invernal, empezar a correr por el bosque, y sucede con un descubrimiento mágico, una hermosa flor amarilla que brota de la nieve.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

A playful tale of forest animals as they awaken from their winter slumber, start running through the woods, and happen upon a magical discovery'a beautiful yellow flower sprouting out of the snow.

About the Author:

Ruth Krauss was one of the most widely celebrated children’s book authors of all time. Her long list of award-winning books includes The Carrot Seed, The Happy Day, A Hole Is to Dig, Open House for Butterflies, A Very Special House, and many others. Her books continue to be read and cherished by children throughout the world.

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins Espanol
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0064434141
• ISBN 13: 9780064434140
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 36
• Illustrator: Simont Marc