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2 unusual facts about Marc Simont


Marc Simont

Simont and writer Marjorie Sharmat created the boy detective Nate the Great in 1972 and he illustrated the first twenty cases, through 1998.

He won the 1957 Caldecott Medal for U.S. children's book illustration, recognizing A Tree Is Nice by Janice May Udry, and he was a runner-up both in 1950 (The Happy Day by Ruth Krauss) and in 2002!



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Nate the Great

-- source is WorldCat library records only for #1 and #18–26 as listed here --> Some numbers were jointly written with Mitchell Sharmat (Marjorie's husband) or Craig Sharmat (her son), and the recent ones have been illustrated by Martha Weston or Jody Wheeler "in the style of Marc Simont".