The Stray Dog
Many young children love picture books because they don't have to worry about reading and comprehending so many words. Instead they can just look at the pictures and make up a story of their own, since pictures tell a thousand words. That is exactly what Marc Simont does in The Stray Dog illustrations. His pictures tell a thousand words.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 has illustrated such classics as Karla Kushin's The Philharmonic Gets Dressed, James Thurber's The 13 Clocks, and Marjorie Weinman Sharmat's Nate t
United States: HarperCollins Publishers, 2001. they introduced him to the neighborhood, where he met some very interesting dogs" captions a busy scene of a park full of many different types of dogs. The Stray Dog, by Marc Simont is a true story about a little dog appearing at a family picnic. BibliographySimont, Marc.
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