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Marc Simont
Born
(1915-11-23)November 23, 1915 Paris, France
Died
July 13, 2013(2013-07-13) (aged 97) West Cornwall, Connecticut, U.S.
Occupation
Artist, cartoonist, illustrator
Nationality
American
Period
1939–2013
Genre
Children's literature including picture books
Notable works
Nate the Great series
Notable awards
Caldecott Medal 1957
Paris-born American artist, political cartoonist, and illustrator (1915-2013)
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. Simont settled in New York City in 1935 after encouragement from his father, attended the National Academy of Design with Robert McCloskey,[1] and served three years in the military.
Simont's first illustrated children's book was published in 1939. In 1952, Jareb, a book he illustrated alongside author Miriam Powell, won the Child Study Association of America's Children's Book Award (now Bank Street Children's Book Committee's Josette Frank Award). He won the 1957 Caldecott Medal for U.S. children's book illustration, recognizing A Tree Is Nice by Janice May Udry, and he was a runner-up both in 1950 (The Happy Day by Ruth Krauss) and in 2002 (The Stray Dog retold by Simont).[2]
He also illustrated The 13 Clocks (1950) and The Wonderful O (1957) by the writer James Thurber; In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord (1984); Top Secret by John Reynolds Gardiner (1995); My Brother, Ant by Betsy Byars (1996); and The Beautiful Planet: Ours to Lose, which he also wrote (2010), and illustrated "The Trail Driving Rooster" by Fred Gipson (1955).
Simont and writer Marjorie W. Sharmat created the boy detective Nate the Great in 1972, and he illustrated the first twenty cases, through 1998.
As cartoonist for The Lakeville Journal in Connecticut, he won the 2007 James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism from Hunter College.
He died at his home in West Cornwall, Connecticut on July 13, 2013 at the age of 97. He was survived by his wife Sara "Bee" Dalton.[1]
^ abFox, Margalit (17 July 2013). "Marc Simont, Classic Children's Book Illustrator, Dies at 97". The New York Times.
^Kylee (2013-01-10). "Caldecott Winners and Honor Books". Madison Public Library. Retrieved 2024-02-24.
MarcSimont (November 23, 1915 – July 13, 2013) was a Paris-born American artist, political cartoonist, and illustrator of more than a hundred children's...
illustrator MarcSimont inaugurated the series in 1972 with Nate the Great, a 60-page book published by Coward, McCann & Geoghegan. Simont illustrated...
enlisted his friend MarcSimont to illustrate the original edition. The Golux is said to wear an "indescribable hat". Thurber made Simont describe all his...
always looks. Strange." When Rosamond's creators, Marjorie Sharmat and MarcSimont, allegedly began contacting companies who had contracts related to Emily...
of Thurber's works illustrated by his friend and frequent illustrator MarcSimont after Thurber went blind during the 1950s. The 2009 reprint by The New...
the Great Mystery series by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat, illustrated by MarcSimont; The Wreck of the Zephyr by Chris Van Allsburg Ellen Schecter July 19...
America's Ethan Allen Honor Hildegard Woodward The Wild Birthday Cake Honor MarcSimont The Happy Day Honor Dr. Seuss Bartholomew and the Oobleck Honor Marcia...
Jackie Robinson is a children's novel by Bette Bao Lord and illustrator MarcSimont about a young girl named Shirley Temple Wong who leaves a secure life...
1990 by Harcourt featured the text accompanied by new illustrations by MarcSimont, another Caldecott-winning artist. Current prints of the book, however...
MarcSimont (1949) —a Caldecott Medal Honor Book for Simont The Big World and the Little House, illus. Simont (1949). The Backward Day, illus. Simont...
The latter two were among several of Thurber's works illustrated by MarcSimont. Thurber's prose for The New Yorker and other venues included numerous...
magazine article titled "Bob McCloskey, Inventor", another Medal winner MarcSimont observed that "[his] talent for devising mechanical contraptions is topped...
lawyer and politician, 14th Attorney General of Utah (b. 1924) 2013 – MarcSimont, French-American author and illustrator (b. 1915) 2014 – Thomas Berger...
(1974), illus. Arnold Lobel No More Monsters For Me! (1981), illus. MarcSimont Scruffy (1988), illus. Kelly Oechsli Illustrated by Wallace Tripp, Fritz...
pilot (d. 2001) 1915 – John Dehner, American actor (d. 1992) 1915 – MarcSimont, French-American illustrator (d. 2013) 1916 – Michael Gough, Malaysian-English...
widely-published book, A Tree is Nice, was awarded the Caldecott Medal in 1957 for MarcSimont's illustrations. She was a member of the American Association of University...
illustration by MarcSimont, The Happy Day, HarperCollins, 1989 / 《코를 “킁킁”》, 고진하 역, 비룡소, 1997. Ruth Krauss, illustration by MarcSimont, The Happy Day...
small group of illustrators—including Natalie Babbitt, Maurice Sendak, MarcSimont and Barbara Cooney—whose work was featured in The Big Book for Peace...
children's picture book written by Janice May Udry and illustrated by MarcSimont. It was published by Harper and Brothers in 1956, and won the Caldecott...
Jean Pinkney (with Jerry Pinkney) – Back Home Marjorie W. Sharmat (with MarcSimont) – Nate the Great and the Stolen Base Ulf Stark – Can You Whistle, Johanna...
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