''Noah's Ark'' is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Peter Spier, first published by Doubleday (publisher), 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.""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." For ''Noah's Ark'' Spier won the 1978 Caldecott Medal for illustration"Caldecott Medal Winners, 1938 - Present"
American Library Association. Retrieved 2009-05-27. and the 1982 National Book Award for Young People's Literature, National Book Award for Children's Books in category Picture Books (paperback)."National Book Awards – 1982"
National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-02-22. Picture books were separately recognized for only two years in National Book Award#History, National Book Awards history, paperbacks for four years. Most of the paperback award-winners were reprints.

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