Un arbol es hermoso: A Caldecott Award Winner (Spanish Edition) - Softcover

Udry, Janice May

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060887087 ISBN 13: 9780060887087

Publisher: HarperCollins Espanol, 2006

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.

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 this title

About the Authors

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.

From the Back Cover

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.

From the Inside Flap

Los arboles son hermosos. A veces ocultan el cielo. Si tienes un arbol puedes trepar a lo alto de su copa, rodar entre sus hojas cidas y colgar un columpio en una de sus ramas. Los pajaros hacen sus nidos en ellos. Su sombra da abrigo tanto a los ninos como a los animales. Es hermoso vivir cerca de un arbol.

Edition details

• Publisher: HarperCollins Espanol
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN 10: 0060887087
• ISBN 13: 9780060887087
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Simont Marc
• Number of pages: 32