Marc Simont (November 23, 1915 – July 13, 2013) was a Paris-born American artist, political cartoonist, and illustrator of more than a hundred children's books. Inspired by his father, Spanish painter Joseph Simont, he began drawing at an early age....
Nate the Great is a series of 31 children's detective stories written by Marjorie W. Sharmat and featuring the boy detective Nate the Great. Sharmat and the illustrator Marc Simont inaugurated the series in 1972 with Nate the Great, a 60-page book...
The Stray Dog is a 2000 children's picture book by Marc Simont, the recipient of the Caldecott Honor in 2001. Published by Harper Collins Publishers, this was Simont's second Caldecott Honor, after The Happy Day by Ruth Krauss in 1950.
Janice May Udry (June 14, 1928 – May 12, 2023) was an American author of children's literature, primarily of picture books.
The Happy Day is a 1949 picture book written by Ruth Krauss and illustrated by Marc Simont. In the book woodland creatures awake to find that it is spring. The book was a recipient of a 1949 Caldecott Honor for its illustrations.
The Wonderful O is the last of James Thurber’s five short-book fairy tales for children. Published in 1957 by Hamish Hamilton/Simon Schuster, it followed Many Moons (1943), The Great Quillow (1944), The White Deer (1945) and The 13 Clocks (1950). As...
The 13 Clocks is a fantasy tale written by James Thurber in 1950, while he was in Bermuda completing one of his other novels. It is written in a unique cadenced style, in which a mysterious prince must complete a seemingly impossible task to free a...
Emily the Strange is an illustrated fictional character featured in several comic books, graphic novels and in various merchandise and clothing lines. She was created by Rob Reger for his company Cosmic Debris Etc. Inc.
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson is a 1984 children's novel by Bette Bao Lord and illustrator Marc Simont about a young girl named Shirley Temple Wong who leaves a secure life within her clan in China following World War II.
I Can Read! is a line of beginning reading books published by HarperCollins. The series is rated by level and is widely used to teach children to read English.