| El Perro Vagabundo: The Stray Dog (Spanish Edition), a Caldecott Honor Award Winner Contributor(s): Simont, Marc (Author), Simont, Marc (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 0060522747 ISBN-13: 9780060522742 Publisher: HarperCollins Espanol OUR PRICE: $7.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Language: Spanish Published: May 2003 Annotation: This heartwarming book, based on a true story, tells the tale of a picnicking family charmed by a stray dog. When their picnic ends, they say goodbye to the dog, but cannot forget him. When they return for him a week later, they find the dogcatcher is looking for him, too. Full-color illustrations. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Animals - Dogs - Juvenile Fiction | Animals - Pets - Juvenile Fiction | Family - General (see Also Headings Under Social Themes) |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2002036953 |
| Lexile Measure: 440 |
| Physical Information: 0.2" H x 8.5" W x 10.6" (0.25 lbs) 32 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Family - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 perrito aparece de repente durante una excursi n familiar y unos ni os juegan con l toda la tarde. Le ponen de nombre Willy. Al final del d a se despiden de l, pero piensan en Willy durante toda la semana. La familia regresa al lugar de la merienda a buscarlo. Sin embargo, no son los nicos, el perrero tambi n busca a Willy |
Contributor Bio(s): Simont, Marc: - 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. Simont, Marc: -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. |