A Tree Is Nice (Rise and Shine) - Softcover

Udry, Janice May

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0064431479 ISBN 13: 9780064431477

Publisher: HarperTrophy, 1987

Synopsis

"Trees are very nice, " says Janice May Udry in her first book for children. She goes on to explain that even one tree is nice, if it is the only one you happen to have.

About this title

Review:

"This is one of those books which prick a child into a realization of the beauty of the everyday world."--The New York Times

"A radiant and buoyant picture book."--The Horn Book

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperTrophy
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0064431479
• ISBN 13: 9780064431477
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Simont Marc