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Informationen zum Autor 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 (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. Zusammenfassung Swoosh-swoosh, Whoo-whoo Tiptoe-tiptoe, Yum, yum, yum-- KERCHEW! What are the strange sounds in Johnny Lion's room? This beloved I Can Read Book captures all the misery--and coziness--of a day in bed with a bad, bad cold. Every child will triumph with Johnny Lion when he feels better the next day and the only sound in his room is a healthy ROAR! This easy-to-read story about the easy-to-love Lion family is told through the lighthearted text of Edith Thacher Hurd and the tender pictures by her husband, Clement Hurd, the illustrator of Goodnight Moon.
