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
he Great. He won a Caldecott Honor in 1950 for illustrating Ruth Krauss's The Happy Day, and in 1957 he was awarded the Caldecott Medal for his pictures in A Tree is Nice, by Janice May Udry. There is also plenty of humor found in Simont's illustrations. The first page is a good example with the simple picture of Willy's back half sticking out, with his tail wagging, while his front half is hidden inside of the large black garbage bag. And later in the story when the little boy donates his belt to use as a collar, he's shown struggling to keep his pants up while him and his sister run and jump in joy that they just found the newest member of their family. The artwork in general, greatly captures many different emotions such as sadness, love, and excitement. September 2002. http://www.harperchildrens.com
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Approximate Word count = 1052
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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