![]() ![]() ![]() What I appreciate about Spier’s account is that, because it is wordless, it actually requires that you go to the Bible to read the original account. I find most Bible storybooks quite problematic, as they so often mangle the biblical texts. ![]() But we also see, in a series of panels, the floodwaters overtaking the many animals that were left behind. Some of the detail is amusing – two dodos are shown waddling their way to safety (at least for a few thousand years). ![]() The rest of the book is filled with seemingly simple, but incredibly detailed pictures of Noah and his family as they build the Ark, bring in the animal pairs, and feed and care for them inside. There are two biblical quotations, one to start the book from Genesis 6:8: “But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.” The second ends the book, and is taken from Genesis 9:20: “… and he planted vineyard.” In addition, one page is given to an English translation of a 400-year-old poem about the Flood by Dutchman Jacobus Revius. What author and illustrator Peter Spier gives us here is a beautifully illustrated, nearly wordless account of the Flood, with only three of the 48 pages containing text. ![]()
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