{"product_id":"the-philharmonic-gets-dressed-9780060236229","title":"The Philharmonic Gets Dressed","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"It is almost Friday night. Outside, the dark is getting darker,\" and here and there around the city ninety-two men and thirteen women are getting dressed to go to work. First they bathe and put on their underwear. Then they don special black-and-white apparel. Then when the one hundred and five people are completely ready, each takes a musical instrument and travels to midtown. There, at 8:30 tonight, they will work together: playing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these pages Karla Kuskin and Marc Simont combine their talents to give us a delightful and unusual inside view of one way an orchestra prepares.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Nominee, 1983 American Book Award\u003cbr\u003eNotable Children's Books of 1983 (ALA)\u003cbr\u003e1983 Fanfare Honor List (The Horn Book)\u003cbr\u003eOutstanding Children's Books of 1982 (NYT)\u003cbr\u003eA Reading Rainbow Selection\u003cbr\u003e1983 Teachers' Choices (NCTE)\u003cbr\u003eChildren's Books of 1982 (Library of Congress)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSimont, Marc:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eMarc 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen 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 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInternationally 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. Mr. Simont and his wife have one grown son, two dogs and a cat. They live in West Cornwall, Connecticut. Marc Simont's most recent book is The Stray Dog.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKuskin, Karla:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKarla Kuskin wrote more than fifty books for children, including the \u003cem\u003ePhilharmonic Gets Dressed\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGreen as a Bean\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eMoon, Have You Met My Mother\u003c\/em\u003e She was the winner of the NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry, among other honors. And once, long ago, may have given her son a woolly red hat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSimont, Marc:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eMarc 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 \u003cem\u003eL'Illustration, \u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen 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 won a Caldecott Honor in 1950 for illustrating Ruth Krauss's \u003cem\u003eThe Happy Day, \u003c\/em\u003e and in in 1957 he was awarded the Caldecott Medal for his pictures in \u003cem\u003eA Tree is Nice, \u003c\/em\u003e by Janice May Udry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInternationally 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. Mr. Simont and his wife have one grown son, two dogs and a cat. They live in West Cornwall, Connecticut. Marc Simont's most recent book is \u003cem\u003eThe Stray Dog.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50872420761874,"sku":"9780060236229","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4bd9d6ae-b644-48aa-b168-6dc280883258.jpg?v=1747214452","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-philharmonic-gets-dressed-9780060236229","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}