Simont and writer Marjorie Sharmat created the boy detective Nate the Great in 1972 and he illustrated the first twenty cases, through 1998.
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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!
Marc Jacobs | Marc Chagall | Marc Anthony | Marc Ribot | Marc Almond | Marc Nelson | Marc Bolan | Jean-Marc Lofficier | Marc Cohn | Marc Connelly | Franz Marc | Marc Lavoine | Marc Garneau | Marc Quinn | Marc Newson | Marc Lazar | Marc Isambard Brunel | Marc Allégret | MARC Train | Marc Forster | Marc Blitzstein | Marc Bamuthi Joseph | Marc Augé | Marc-Antoine Charpentier | Marc | Marc Mellits | Marc LeBlanc | Marc Kudisch | Marc Ducret | Marc Daubert |
-- 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".