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Marc Simont


Born
in Paris, France
November 23, 1915

Died
July 13, 2013

Genre
Art, Children's


Artist, political cartoonist, and illustrator of more than a hundred children's books, 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 ...more

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Average rating: 3.98 · 52,830 ratings · 4,689 reviews · 132 distinct works • Similar authors
The Stray Dog
4.02 avg rating — 3,297 ratings — published 2001 — 39 editions
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The Goose That Almost Got C...
3.77 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 1997 — 7 editions
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The Lovely Summer
3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1991 — 7 editions
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Polly's Oats
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The Contest at Paca
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The Beautiful Planet: ours ...
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Mimi
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The Plumber Out of the Sea
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Marc Simont at the Library ...
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