![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Spier the Caldecott Medal, the highest honor for illustrators of picture books. “Since it has no text, you have to give the story in the drawings, mine showing the work, the mess,” he said in a video made in 2012 by his publisher, Doubleday. He tossed in visual jokes, like sheets flapping on a clothesline and rabbits who enter the ark as a couple and leave it as a herd. He showed Noah’s toils, like pulling a donkey onto the ark and trying to snatch two bees out of a swarm. DeMille epic, filling it with a cast of creatures that seems animated on the page. He imbued “Noah’s Ark” with the cinematic sensibility of a Cecil B. Spier’s dozens of books are filled with meticulously drawn and brilliantly colored images, like the elephants, horses, seals, acrobats, clowns and trapeze artists in “Circus!” (1992) and the myriad pairs of animals in “Noah’s Ark” (1977). ![]() The cause was congestive heart failure, said his son, Thomas. Peter Spier, an award-winning children’s-book author and illustrator who depicted Noah’s biblical journey, told the story of the Erie Canal to the words of the song “Low Bridge, Everybody Down” and gave voice to the sounds of hundreds of animals like hippos (“RRUMMPF) and starlings (“FEE-YOU”), died on April 27 in Port Jefferson, N.Y. He won the 1978 Caldecott Medal for "Noah's Ark." ![]()
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