A Tree Is Nice: A Caldecott Award Winner – A Classic Story About the Beauty of Trees and Birds (Rise and Shine)
1955 Caldecott Medal winner. A gentle celebration of the many pleasures of trees.
Work Information
A gentle celebration of the many pleasures of trees
A gentle celebration of the many pleasures of trees. A Japanese edition was not confirmed in this pass, so bookIdentifiers.ja remains null.
Book Information
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- 1987-07-16
- Pages
- 32 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 15.72 x 0.2 x 27.94 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780064431477
- ISBN-10
- 0064431479
- Price
- 1857 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Children's Books/Arts, Music & Photography/Performing Arts/Drama & Theater
Winner of the Caldecott Medal A radiant and buoyant picture book. The Horn Book A Tree Is Nice is a classic tale about the beauty of the everyday world. "Simont's watercolors perfectly complement the poetic simplicity of the text, allowing the reader room to engage in his or her own imaginative embroiderings about trees" (Children's Books and Their Creators). Trees are beautiful. They fill up the sky. If you have a tree, you can climb up its trunk, roll in its leaves, or hang a swing from one of its limbs. Cows and babies can nap in the shade of a tree. Birds can make nests in the branches. A tree is good to have around. A tree is nice.
Mrs. Udry's first book, A Tree Is Nice , illustrated by Marc Simont, won the 1957 Caldecott Award for the most distinguished American picture book. Mrs. Udry is also the author of Glenda , Let's Be Enemies (also illustrated by Maurice Sendak), Mary Ann's Mud Day , The Mean Mouse and Other Mean Stories , and Thump and Plunk . 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 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. 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. 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.
Reviews
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偕成社から日本語版が出版されている。
木は森をつくり／木はすべてを美しくします／木が１本しかなくてもいいのです／木は葉があればいいのです／夏の間、葉はそよ風にささやきます（試訳）。 改築前の自宅には門から玄関まで欅や楓などの木があった。縁側に面した庭にはかつて池だった場所に石橋がかかり、底には苔が一面に生えていた。袖垣の野木瓜も忘れがたい。井戸や手水鉢があり、ヒマラヤ杉に鳩が巣を作っていた。いちばん奥の庭には枇杷・柿・柘榴・ポーポーなどがあった。読んでいたらそんなことを思い出した。 JANICE MAIUDRY：1928年、イリノイ州のジャクソンビルで生まれた。 1950年、ノースウェスタン大学を卒業。夫とともにバレンシアオレンジの国に住んでいたので、彼女は「木を意識している」かもしれないと言う。また、急成長するオンブーの木に影響されたとも。 MARC SIMONTは1915年、パリ生まれ、ヨーロッパとニューヨークの両方で学んだ。 ルース・クラウスやマーガレット・ワイズ・ブラウンなどの作家の本にイラストを数多く描いた。2013年、コネチカット州コーンウォールの自宅で亡くなった。
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何故かこの絵本を手にしてしまう。
いくつか揃えた英語絵本の中で、 何故かいつもこの絵本を手に取ってしまいます。 ６ヶ月の娘もじっと絵を見ながら話を聞いています。 絵も文章も奇を衒うことなく、すっきりと理知的ながら 芸術性も高いと思います。 絵の雰囲気も品が良く、文章は声に出して読みたくなります。 普通の絵本は主人公がいる物語が多いですが、 この本は、本が読み手に、あるいは読み手が聞き手に 語り聞かせてるような文章なので、 心にすっと入っていくのだと思います。 内容は、木の良さや人間がどうやって木を利用しているか、 まるで自分の愛する家族を紹介するかのように教えてくれます。 また同時に、この本のように『日頃利用しているもの』あるいは『自然』を 観察したり役目を理解し讃えるといった事の素晴らしさや気持ち良さも 感じることもできると思います。
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これはオススメです！
子供の頃、秋になって枯葉があると踏んで遊びましたよね？ そんな、自然な木と密着して、なんだか思いで深く、優しい本です。 落ち葉を燃やしたり、春には気に登って遊んだり、といった様子が表現されています。 内容も簡単な英語ですが、とってもイキイキとした表現をしていて 驚かされます。 暑い日には木陰で休む人や動物。木が私たち生き物にもたらしてくれるのは とにかく多いのです。 読んだ後は、静かに幸せを感じる一冊です。
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nanohana
日本語翻訳本よりも、色の出が強い。翻訳の練習材料として参考にさせてもらっています。大好きな本ですから。
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かわいい本です！
購入させて頂いた本"A Tree is Nice"は私の運営している図書室に納める本として非常に満足しております！本の中での色使いや絵そのものがとても素敵で大変気に入っております。シンプルで分かりやすく、自然に焦点を当てたテーマが美しく、心を潤してくれます。
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The illustrations are a little abstract, and I wish they were all in color, but overall the book tells a nice story about having trees in our lives. One thing that makes this book special, is the poetic way it presents things. Phrases like "The leaves whisper in the breeze, all summer long..." Now when the wind blows, the kids say "Listen! The wind is whispering!" and quiet down to hear it, so it definitely made an impression on them. Not every book can do that.
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My fav book when I was kid bought for my daughter love the illustrations. The shape of the book is memorable. If you love nature and trees this is a great book for you and a child to enjoy.
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I love this book, beautiful descriptions about trees as well as lovely illustrations. Brilliantly pitched, my 6-7 year old children enjoyed reading this during their book club session.
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This is a classic story for young children, that I have known for many years. The only thing I take issue with (now that we are so environmentally aware) is the burning of leaves, today we would recycle them for leaf mulch! I recommend this book for any three, four and five year old children. The illustrations are bold and vivid, and the text makes for a great discussion of how we need to appreciate and preserve our natural treasures, TREES!
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This is a favorite Caldecott book. I didn’t have a copy. Our city had a devastating derecho inAugust 2020 that took 70% of our tree canopy. This book helps with the healing. And we’ve planted new trees too.