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From: Susan Daugherty <kdaugherty>
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 10:38:56 -0500
One more comment about Marc Simont, if you don't mind.
I just got a new copy of A TREE IS NICE, and I read it aloud to a couple of different classes. I was impressed by it all over again. The wonderful simple words of Udry are matched by the seemingly simple but well thought out illustrations of Simont. I loved the way he started out before the title page with, not a half-title, but a picture of one tree. It looks like a Japanese print. A different way of doing a half-title. He gets so much in a line throughout the book. I can't express how I appreciate the feeling he gets into a line. Humor, liveliness, beauty are all expressed and more. It deserved the Caldecott.
Susan
Received on Wed 02 May 2001 10:38:56 AM CDT
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 10:38:56 -0500
One more comment about Marc Simont, if you don't mind.
I just got a new copy of A TREE IS NICE, and I read it aloud to a couple of different classes. I was impressed by it all over again. The wonderful simple words of Udry are matched by the seemingly simple but well thought out illustrations of Simont. I loved the way he started out before the title page with, not a half-title, but a picture of one tree. It looks like a Japanese print. A different way of doing a half-title. He gets so much in a line throughout the book. I can't express how I appreciate the feeling he gets into a line. Humor, liveliness, beauty are all expressed and more. It deserved the Caldecott.
Susan
Received on Wed 02 May 2001 10:38:56 AM CDT
