He died of congestive heart failure on Apat the age of 89.

His books included The Cow Who Fell in the Canal by Phyllis Krasilovsky, The Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night, Of Dikes and Windmills, and Circus! He received the Caldecott Medal for Noah's Ark. Peter Spier Community Expert, First off, if you must force a line break you cannot use a parargraph break (enter) to do that and use nested styles since you have, by defintion, created a new paragraph. He worked in advertising before he began to write and illustrate children's books. Submit feedback for this page How are we doing Send us comments about our Author Pages. Manage your follows View and manage who you follow on Amazon. Spier returned to the Netherlands after the war and served in the Royal Netherlands Navy for four years before immigrating to the United States in 1951. Peter Spier Follow to get new release updates, special offers (including promotional offers) and improved recommendations. (STOCK CODE: 2112582) for sale by Stella & Roses Books. They were liberated by the Soviet Red Army in May 1945. THE GREAT FLOOD written by Peter Spier illustrated by Peter Spier published by Worlds Work Ltd. In 1961 he wrote and illustrated The Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night. Since the family was Jewish, they were all sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. Since then he has illustrated almost 150 books for other authors. Childrens book author and illustrator Peter Spier. His father was imprisoned by the Nazis for an illustration of Hitler that speculated about what would have happened had he stayed a painter. We the People by Peter Spier: 9780593128084 : Books The US Constitution brought to life for young readers In this visual celebration of the US Constitution and America's founding fathers, Caldecott. and the home of the brave The book is available in the librarys Childrens Room. His formal education ended in his early teens, about a year after the Nazis invaded the Netherlands in 1940. Peter Edward Spier was born in Amsterdam on June 6, 1927.

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