Noah's Ark (Spier book)
Noah's Ark is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Peter Spier, first published by Doubleday in 1977. 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."[1] 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."[2]
 Front cover of unknown edition | |
| Author | Peter Spier |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Peter Spier |
| Cover artist | Peter Spier |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Children's picture book |
| Publisher | Doubleday |
Publication date | 1977 |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 46 pp |
| ISBN | 0-385-12730-8 |
| OCLC | 2524624 |
| 222/.1109505 | |
| LC Class | BS1238.N6 S64 |
For Noah's Ark Spier won the 1978 Caldecott Medal for illustration[3] and the 1982 National Book Award for Children's Books in category Picture Books (paperback).[4][lower-alpha 1]
Notes
- Picture books were separately recognized for only two years in National Book Awards history, paperbacks for four years. Most of the paperback award-winners were reprints.
References
- "Noah's Ark (Book) by Peter Spier, Jacob Revius". Google product presentation with quotation from Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 2012-02-22.
- Bader, Barbara (1986). "The Caldecott Spectrum". In Kingman, Lee (ed.). Newbery and Caldecott Medal Books 1976-1985. Boston: The Horn Book, Incorporated. pp. 288–289. ISBN 0-87675-004-8.
- "Caldecott Medal Winners, 1938 - Present". American Library Association. Retrieved 2009-05-27.
- "National Book Awards – 1982". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-02-22.