Johnny Lion’s Book

By Edith Thacher Hurd, Clement Hurd

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Johnny Lion’s Book

By Edith Thacher Hurd, Clement Hurd

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Alone with a book

Johnny Lion is home alone with his new books, The Little Lion. The book is about a lion cub who is on his own one day, just like Johnny. But, unlike Johnny Lion, this cub walks out into the world alone–and into lots of trouble!

ISBN: 9780064442978
Imprint: HarperCollins
On Sale: Dec 26, 2000
List price: $5.99
No of pages: 64
Trim Size: 5.550 in (w) x 8.500 in (h) x 0.300 in (d)
BISAC 1: JUVENILE FICTION / Readers / Beginner
BISAC 2: JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / Lions, Tigers, Leopards, etc.
BISAC 3: JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Parents

Edith Thacher Hurd

Biography

Edith Thacher Hurd was born in Kansas City, Missouri. She wrote more than seventy-five children’s books, including Starfish, I Dance in My Red Pajamas and the Johnny Lion books, many of which were illustrated by her husband, Clement Hurd.

Clement Hurd

Biography

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.

Alone with a book

Johnny Lion is home alone with his new books, The Little Lion. The book is about a lion cub who is on his own one day, just like Johnny. But, unlike Johnny Lion, this cub walks out into the world alone–and into lots of trouble!

ISBN: 9780064442978
Imprint: HarperCollins
On Sale: Dec 26, 2000
List price: $5.99
No of pages: 64
Trim Size: 5.550 in (w) x 8.500 in (h) x 0.300 in (d)
BISAC 1: JUVENILE FICTION / Readers / Beginner
BISAC 2: JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / Lions, Tigers, Leopards, etc.
BISAC 3: JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Parents

Edith Thacher Hurd

Biography

Edith Thacher Hurd was born in Kansas City, Missouri. She wrote more than seventy-five children’s books, including Starfish, I Dance in My Red Pajamas and the Johnny Lion books, many of which were illustrated by her husband, Clement Hurd.

Clement Hurd

Biography

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.