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From: Linda M. Pavonetti <pavonett>
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 10:48:16 -0400
I'd like to know more about Marc Simont's motivation for re-illustrating Thurber's Many Moons. When Simont's version was released, my first response was that it took a lot of chutzpah considering Slobodkin's original illustrations won the Caldecott for best illustrated book of 1944. But when I show the two versions side-by-side to my graduate and undergraduate children's literature students, they invariably choose Simont's version over the Caldecott illustrations. Why did Simont choose that book to illustrate? Since he and Slobodkin were contemporaries, did they know each other? Did Simont receive a lot of criticism for tackling this project? What's the story behind this book?
Linda M. Pavonetti, Ed.D.
Oakland University
Department of Reading and Language Arts
Rochester, MI 48309D94
(O) 24870F83
(Fax) 24870C67
e-mail <
Received on Wed 04 Apr 2001 09:48:16 AM CDT
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 10:48:16 -0400
I'd like to know more about Marc Simont's motivation for re-illustrating Thurber's Many Moons. When Simont's version was released, my first response was that it took a lot of chutzpah considering Slobodkin's original illustrations won the Caldecott for best illustrated book of 1944. But when I show the two versions side-by-side to my graduate and undergraduate children's literature students, they invariably choose Simont's version over the Caldecott illustrations. Why did Simont choose that book to illustrate? Since he and Slobodkin were contemporaries, did they know each other? Did Simont receive a lot of criticism for tackling this project? What's the story behind this book?
Linda M. Pavonetti, Ed.D.
Oakland University
Department of Reading and Language Arts
Rochester, MI 48309D94
(O) 24870F83
(Fax) 24870C67
e-mail <
Received on Wed 04 Apr 2001 09:48:16 AM CDT
