SPECIAL CONCEPT: Every child learns about size, usually through nonfiction. The author's imagination and the illustrator's keen eyes make it a perfect choice for anyone seeking a gorgeous gift that celebrates the wonder of our world, whether between parents and kids, between grandparents and grandchildren, or even between friends. Beloved author Carter Higgins's poignant, poetic text and Daniel Miyares's incandescent illustrations capture a whole new way of seeing the world in this beautiful, giftable meditation on what it means to be a kid-and what it means to be a human.Ī GIFT FOR ALL: This book expresses a genuine love for the world in a sincere, observant way. Divided into three chapters with three specially paper-engineered separations, every page encapsulates one precious moment that perfectly represents both a size and an experience. This lovely, lyrical book collects the world by size. Some things are as big as a family of bears some are as small as a reflection in a puddle. This wide, wonderful world contains many things. Marc Simont's most recent book is The Stray Dog.You Are (Not) Small meets The Quiet Book in this beautiful compilation of all the little things that make up our big world. Simont and his wife have one grown son, two dogs and a cat. 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. 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. Simont has illustrated nearly a hundred books, working with authors as diverse as Margaret Wise Brown and James Thurber. His first illustrations for a children's book appeared in 1939. Simont settled in America permanently, determined to support himself as an artist.

Though he later attended art school in Paris and New York, he considers his father to have been his greatest teacher. Encouraged by his father, Joseph Simont, an artist and staff illustrator for the magazine L'Illustration, Marc Simont drew from a young age. His parents were from the Catalonia region of Spain, and his childhood was spent in France, Spain, and the United States.

Her books continue to be read and cherished by children throughout the world. Her long list of award-winning books includes The Carrot Seed, The Happy Day, A Hole Is to Dig, Open House for Butterflies, A Very Special House, and many others. Ruth Krauss was one of the most widely celebrated children’s book authors of all time.

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