This wordless picture book by the renowned Caldecott Medal winner celebrates a family's traditions during a very special time of the year. "Peter Spier proves that a picture can be worth a thousand words".--School Library Journal. Full color.

This wordless picture book by the renowned Caldecott Medal winner celebrates a family's traditions during a very special time of the year. "Peter Spier proves that a picture can be worth a thousand words".--School Library Journal. Full color.

Illustrations without text follow the activities of three young children and their parents as they prepare for, and finally celebrate, Christmas.

Two children's adventures through a rainy day told using watercolor pictures.

Originally published: Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1985.

★ Caldecott Medal Winner ★ "the book is a triumph, the definitive Noah's Ark."—Publishers Weekly Winner of the Caldecott Medal, an ALA Notable Children's Book, and a New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year, Peter Spier's Noah's Ark has been the iconic edition of this tale for over 40 years, in print continuously since its debut in 1977. In Spier's imaginative retelling, readers witness the danger and the grandeur of the terrifying flood but also the lighter moments: Noah's wife jumping on a crate to avoid the rats; Noah shooing all but two bees from a busy hive; and all the animal babies being born in the spring. It's an illustration feat that's both majestic and tender.

In this encyclopedic picture book, Spier celebrates humankind in all its diversity-how we are similar and how we are differnt; in what we wear, eat, play, and how we worship. Small vignettes fill each page, illustrating the wonderful variety that exists among peoples of different cultures and races.