". . . Creatures all,/ Large and small,/Good and mean,/Foul and
clean,/Fierce and tame,/In they came,/Pair by pair,/ Gross and
fair. . . ." Perhaps so as not to break the rhythm, perhaps in
order not to distract from the pore-over-able watercolors, Spier
confines all 60 three-syllable lines of this neat little
17th-century Dutch rhyme ("The Flood," by Jacobus Revius) to an
opening page, then settles down to tell the familiar story in
pictures. There is quiet diversion aplenty in Spier's throwaway
detail - Noah admitting two bees and brushing away swarms of
others; the branch that the dove brings back being fed to the cow;
a whole gangplank of rabbits disembarking though only two began the
voyage - and it's seen from a variety of viewing points: a scene of
marching underbellies complete with smaller hitchhikers and fellow
passengers, a sad rear view of those left behind, a wide one of
chores being done on the busy floating barn. Without revising or
even enlarging on the old story, Spier fills it in, delightfully.
(Kirkus Reviews)
The bee and the fox, the sheep and the ox--two of each kind trudged aboard Noah's famous vessel. Peter Spier uses his own translation of a seventeenth-century Dutch poem about this most famous menagerie.
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