London Bridge Is Falling Down!

peter spier

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

Genres picture booksfictionpoetrychildrens

48 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1966

Series

Mother Goose Library

Literary awards

boston globe-horn book award,

Places

england, london england,

This edition

Format: 48 pages, Paperback
Published: January 1, 1992 by Yearling Books
ISBN: 9780440407102
ASIN: 0440407109
Language: English

About the author

Peter Spier has established himself as one of the most gifted illustrators in this county. His Noah's Ark was the 1978 Caldecott Award winner, while The Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night was a Caldecott Honor book in 1962. The firs two books in his widely acclaimed Mother Goose Library, London Bridge Is Falling Down! and To Market! To Market! were winner and runner-up respectively for the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. The Erie Canal and Noah's Ark both won Christopher Awards, while Gobble, Growl, Grunt received Honorable Mention in the first Children's Science Book Award program, sponsored by the New York Academy of Science.

Born and educated in Amsterdam, Mr. Spier came to New York in 1952 after serving in the Royal Dutch Navy and working for a number of years as a reporter for Elsevier's Weekly, Holland's largest magazine. He has illustrated over a hundred books and has contributed a series of murals to the H. F. Du Pont Winterthur Museum in Delaware.