"Noah's Ark" by Peter Spier, published by Doubleday, 1977. First edition, 6th printing; fully illustrated. {For 'Noah's Ark' Spier won the 1978 Caldecott Medal for illustration and the 1982 National Book Award for Children's Books in category Picture Books.]

Illustrated hard boards; 10.1/2" x 8.1/4"; unpaginated, c.50 pages, all pages are illustrated with color drawings by Peter Spier, very good condition.

The text includes Spier's translation of "The Flood" by Jacobus Revius, a 17th-century poem telling the Bible story of Noah's Ark. According to Kirkus Reviews, the poem comprises sixty three-syllable lines such as "Pair by pair" (in translation). "Without revising or even enlarging on the old story, Spier fills it in, delightfully." In a retrospective essay about the Caldecott Medal-winning books from 1976 to 1985, Barbara Bader described the book as "at once elaborate and feeble" and Revius' poem as "neither particularly suited to children nor eloquent in itself."

Peter Spier (1927-2017) was a Dutch-American illustrator and writer who created more than thirty children's books. Like other children's illustrators such as Beatrix Potter or Christopher Wormell, Peter Spier demonstrates his talent and skills as an artist/illustrator using pen, ink and watercolor on paper.

Peter Spier received Caldecott Medal, the American Book Award, the Christopher Award, and An ALA Notable Children's Book Award, and was placed on the honor list of the International Board on Books for Young People.

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World: 1st Class (c.2-5 weeks) --- $42.50