Peter Spier

Emphasizes the differences among the four billion people on earth. A celebration of diverse world cultures from the brilliant Peter Spier, one of the most beloved children's illustrators of the last 50 years. In this breathtaking tour around the world, young readers can pore over the many details that make each country and culture unique and special--illuminated by Spier's detailed and witty illustrations of festivals and holidays, foods, religions,...

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.

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

A collection of nursery rhymes illustrated by pictures of the wanderings of two children through towns and places of nineteenth-century Italy.