![]() “Someone mentioned I should go to Doubleday, since they may have work for me,” recalled Spier. Not long after his arrival on these shores in the U.S., the artist followed some fortuitous advice. Now 87 and living on Long Island’s North Shore, Spier moved to New York in the early 1950s after studying history at the University of Amsterdam, serving in the Royal Netherlands Navy, and working at Amsterdam’s Elsevier Weekly magazine. ![]() ![]() And on January 27, Doubleday will release new editions of Noah’s Ark and The Book of Jonah. The reissue program, which involves hardcover and e-book editions, began in May 2014 with We the People and The Star-Spangled Banner and continued last September with The Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night. To introduce these and three other Spier classics to a new generation of readers, Doubleday last year began reissuing select titles from the Spier oeuvre (some long out of print), with refreshed art, two new covers by the artist, and a uniform title typeface. Dutch-born author and illustrator Peter Spier, who launched his children’s book career six decades ago, has created dozens of picture books, including Caldecott Honor Book The Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night (1961) and Caldecott Medal winner Noah’s Ark (1977). ![]()
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