``the book is a triumph, the definitive Noahs Ark.``--Publishers Weekly Winner of the Caldecott Medal, an ALA Notable Childrens Book, and a New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year, Peter Spiers Noahs Ark has been the iconic edition of this tale for nearly 40 years, in print continuously since its debut in 1977. In Spiers imaginative retelling, readers witness the danger and the grandeur of the terrifying flood but also the lighter moments: Noahs wife jumping on a crate to avoid the rats; Noah shooing all but two bees from a busy hive; and all the animal babies being born in the spring. Its an illustration feat thats both majestic and tender.