Spier, Peter

In 1687 young Sietze Hemmes sets in motion the rescue of a floundering ship off the coast of a Dutch island in the North Sea, and three hundred years later similar rescues are still taking place.

Follows three young children and their parents as they make preparations for and celebrate the holiday.

Opposite concepts such as full-empty, strong-weak, more-less are illustrated by several pairs of contrasting pictures.

Two children watch cloud formations and interpret them for themselves.

Two children play in their backyard during a rainy day.

Illustrations for standard nursery rhymes reflect farm, rural and town life in early America.

The countryside of New England is depicted in the pictures accompanying this folk song in which a fox travels many miles to get dinner for his wife and ten cubs.

A traveling circus arrives, sets up its village of tents, performs for the crowd, and then moves on again.

Illustrates the singing game about London's Bridge's falling down. Includes a history of the bridge and the song.

On a lazy afternoon, two bored brothers keep themselves busy by building and flying an airplane.