Baby's First Year

by Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illustrator)

Overview

An elegant 12-month keepsake calendar designed to help parents and family members record every detail of baby's first year.

Beginning with baby's birth and leading up to baby's first birthday, a family can record all of the milestone events in the new baby's life. Full-color stickers are included to commemorate those extra-special moments, such as baby's First smile, first word, and First step. Adorned with artwork from the best-selling classics Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd, this beautiful calendar is a unique way of recording baby's development.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780694016730
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	01/28/2002
Pages:	24
Sales rank:	262,613
Product dimensions:	10.00(w) x 12.10(h) x 0.20(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Margaret Wise Brown, cherished for her unique ability to convey a child’s experience and perspective of the world, transformed the landscape of children’s literature with such beloved classics as Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny. Other perennial favorites by Ms. Brown include Nibble Nibble, My World, Where Have You Been?, Christmas in the Barn, The Dead Bird, and Sneakers, the Seaside Cat.

Clement Hurd (1908–1988) is best known for illustrating Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny, the classic picture books by Margaret Wise Brown. He studied painting in Paris with Fernand Léger and others in the early 1930s. After his return to the United States in 1935, he began to work in children's books. He illustrated more than one hundred books, many of them with his wife, Edith Thacher Hurd, including the Johnny Lion books, The Day the Sun Danced, and The Merry Chase. A native of New York City, he lived most of his life in Vermont and California.

Clement Hurd (1908–1988) se graduó de Yale University. Estudió pintura en París en los años 1930 con Fernand Léger, entre otros. Allí fue donde desarrolló su estilo característico, compuesto de colores de fuerte contraste. Hurd estuvo casado con la escritora Edith Thacher Hurd, con quien también creó muchos libros que se convirtieron en favoritos de los niños.

Date of Birth:

May 23, 1910

Date of Death:

November 13, 1952

Place of Birth:

Brooklyn, N.Y.

Place of Death:

Nice, France

Education:

B.A., Hollins College, 1932; Bank Street College of Education

Website:

http://www.margaretwisebrown.com