Thurber Thursday: The Wonderful ‘O’ LP

 Here’s yet another album devoted to James Thurber’s work. I don’t know that there’s another New Yorker artist with as many vinyl recordings (if anyone knows of another, please speak up!). This lp is from 1963.  A little more info here about the lp.    More about the book, The Wonderful O, published in 1957 by Simon & Schuster.    Other

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Marc Simont, 1915 – 2013. Illustrated Thurber’s “The 13 Clocks” & “The Wonderful O”

Following are a few notices about the celebrated illustrator, Marc Simont, who passed away July 13th in Cornwall, Connecticut. The Los Angeles Times, July 21,2013, “Marc Simont dies at age 97; award-winning children’s book artist” The New York Times, July 16, 2013, “Marc Simont, Classic Children’s book illustrator, Dies at 97” Publishers Weekly, July 17, 2013, “Obituary: Marc Simont” The

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