Peter Spier

A translation of a seventeenth-century Dutch poem on Noah retells how a pair of every manner of creature climbed on board Noah's ark and thereby survived the Flood.

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

Illustrates three verses of our national anthem, written at the battle of Fort McHenry during the War of 1812. Music is included.

Retells the Biblical story of the man who spent three days and three nights in the belly of a great fish. Includes historical material on Jonah's world.

Relates the struggle of the people of Holland since 500 B.C. to reclaim land from the sea using windmills and dikes.

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.

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

A redesigned and updated visual celebration of the Constitution and its framers includes an illustrated Preamble, an explanation of the Constitution's significance, the story of its ratification, and a reproduction of the original document.