Noah's Ark (Spier book)

{{short description|1977 picture book by Peter Spier}}

{{Infobox book

| name = Noah's Ark

| image = CM noahs ark.jpg

| caption = Front cover of unknown edition

| 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."

[http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&gs_sm=3&gs_upl=2l2l2l260l1l1l0l0l0l0l143l143l0.1l1l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&biw=708&bih=536&q=noah%27s+ark+peter+spier&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=14785302103271554914&sa=X&ei=PUVFT6qPOcviggfRt5SsBA&ved=0CFMQ8wIwAQ "Noah's Ark (Book) by Peter Spier, Jacob Revius"]. Google product presentation with quotation from Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 2012-02-22. 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."{{cite book |last=Bader |first=Barbara |chapter=The Caldecott Spectrum |pages=288–289 |title=Newbery and Caldecott Medal Books 1976-1985 |editor-last=Kingman |editor-first=Lee |publisher=The Horn Book, Incorporated |location=Boston |year=1986 |isbn=0-87675-004-8}}

For Noah's Ark Spier won the 1978 Caldecott Medal for illustration

[http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/caldecottmedal/caldecottwinners/caldecottmedal.cfm "Caldecott Medal Winners, 1938 - Present"]. American Library Association. Retrieved 2009-05-27.

and the 1982 National Book Award for Children's Books in category Picture Books (paperback).

[https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1982 "National Book Awards – 1982"]. National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-02-22.

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.