5/20/2023 0 Comments Peter spier rain![]() ![]() ![]() It’s jam-packed, for one thing: the story begins on the front endpaper, with a scene on the left of human mayhem: marching armies, burning city, human and animal corpses, all seen from a distance that gets the point across without shocking the reader. Of all the hundreds of illustrated versions of this story, Spier’s is my favorite. Also Noah’s Ark, which won the Caldecott Medal for American book illustration in 1977. Though I don’t know anything about his personal beliefs, respect for the text comes through in The Creation, The Book of Jonah, Christmas! and two advent calendars. Peter Spier, a native of the Netherlands who moved to New York in the early fifties, illustrated many volumes of American history and folklore for young readers, but he also took a notable interest in the Bible. 44 pages.ĭoubleday/Random House has republished this classic work in a spiffy new edition, in which the illustrator himself (at age 87) took a hand. Doubleday, 1976 (original publication reissued 2015). Noah’s Ark, Peter Spier’s classic wordless picture book, takes a Bible story that’s often given too cute a portrayal and adds imagination, depth, and reverence. ![]()
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