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Peter Spier
(1927 - 2017)
Peter Spier is a Dutch-born American illustrator and writer who has created more than thirty children’s books.
Peter Spier was the son of Jo Spier, a noted illustrator of children's books.
Bibliography
Of Dikes and Windmills (1969)
The story of how the Dutch have built a country by pushing back the sea.
Read online at archive.org.
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Peter Spier
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Peter Spier
Oh, Were They Ever Happy! (1978)
One Saturday morning while their parents are away, the three Noonan children decide to paint the house. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Peter Spier
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
People (1980)
Describes and illustrates the diversity of peoples and their lives.
Author(s):
Peter Spier
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
The Pet Store (1981)
Harry and Jane go to the Pet Store, but just to visit.
Author(s):
Peter Spier
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
Peter Spier’s Advent Calendar Little Town of Bethlehem (1987)
A three-dimensional Advent calendar to assemble from pasteboard.
Author(s):
Peter Spier
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
Peter Spier’s Advent Calendar Silent Night, Holy Night (1989)
A three-dimensional Advent calendar to assemble out of paste board.
Author(s):
Peter Spier
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
Peter Spier’s Birthday Cake (1990)
A reusable pasteboard birthday cake.
Author(s):
Peter Spier
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
Peter Spier’s Christmas! (1983)
A wordless evocation of Christmas.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Peter Spier
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
Peter Spier’s Circus! (1992)
The Circus is coming to town!
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Author(s):
Peter Spier
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
Peter Spier’s Little Cats (1984)
Five little kittens. When they are not eating … they sleep. All day.
Author(s):
Peter Spier
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
Peter Spier’s Little Dogs (1984)
Six puppies are born and grow up in a hurry.
Author(s):
Peter Spier
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
Peter Spier’s Little Ducks (1984)
Six ducks hatch out and go swimming.
Author(s):
Peter Spier
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
Peter Spier’s Little Rabbits (1984)
Five little rabbits play -- and eat -- in the garden.
Author(s):
Peter Spier
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
Peter Spier’s Rain (1982)
Playing in the rain.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Peter Spier
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
The Prince and the Pauper (1954)
Edward Prince of Wales trades places with poor Tom Canty for a lark but finds it almost more than he can manage to trade back again.
Author(s):
Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
The Sailing Ship (1964)
A history of the development of sailing ships from the Egyptians to the Thomas W. Lawson, a seven-masted schooner of 1902.
Author(s):
Jan de Hartog
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
Science and Living in Today’s World Grade 8 (1954)
An eighth grade textbook of science.
Author(s):
Sister Monica Marie, S.S.J., B. S.
Sister Mary Raphael
Illustrator(s):
Rafael Palacios
Jo Spier
Peter Spier
The Sea Broke Through (1960)
A storm passes through Holland and the dikes break. This is the story of the men, women, boys and girls who responded to the emergency.
Author(s):
Ardo Flakkeberg
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
The Star-Spangled Banner (1973)
Oh, say can you see, by the dawn’s early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Francis Scott Key
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
Straten Schrijven Historie (1951)
Streets Write History is a biographical and historical street book of Amsterdam.
Author(s):
Jos. F. Steussy
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier