Many of Spier's illustrations are extremely detailed and historically accurate. Like other children's illustrators such as Beatrix Potter or Christopher Wormell, Peter Spier demonstrates his talent and skills as an artist/illustrator using pen, ink and watercolour on paper. He died on April 27, 2017, in Port Jefferson, New York. Spier started his career as a commercial artist for advertising agencies and only later focused on writing and illustrating children's books. The entire Spier family emigrated to the United States in 1950. After the war he studied at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and joined the Royal Netherlands Navy for four years. Jo Spier was Jewish, and, during the Second World War, Peter and his father were two of nine prisoners of Villa Bouchina and were later imprisoned in Theresienstadt. Spier was born in Amsterdam, North Holland, and grew up in Broek in Waterland, the son of Jo Spier, a popular artist and illustrator, and Tineke van Raalte. Peter Spier (J– April 27, 2017) was a Dutch-American illustrator and writer who created more than thirty children's books. 1982 National Book Award in the Picture Book category.Caldecott Medal from the American Library Association.London Bridge Is Falling Down! (1967), in the Mother Goose Library Series.The Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night (1961).Island City: Adventures In Old New York (1961).
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