| Noah's Ark | |
| Author: | Peter Spier |
| Cover Artist: | Peter Spier |
| Illustrator: | Peter Spier |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Children's picture book |
| Publisher: | Doubleday |
| Release Date: | 1977 |
| Media Type: | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages: | 46 pp |
| Isbn: | 0-385-12730-8 |
| Dewey: | 222/.1109505 |
| Congress: | BS1238.N6 S64 |
| Oclc: | 2524624 |
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]
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] [5]