Peter Spier

A traditional folk song which tells of the exciting chase that ensues when Mr. Fox raids the farm in order to feed his family.

Retells in pictures how a pair of every manner of creature climbed on board Noah's ark and thereby survived the Flood. The bee and the fox, the sheep and the ox--two of each kind trudged aboard Noah's famous vessel. Peter Spier uses his own translation of a seventeenth-century Dutch poem about this most famous menagerie.

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

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.

Emphasizes the differences among the four billion people on earth.

A lone trombone playing solo is joined by various instruments, one by one, to create a joyous music performance in the lead story Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin. Other stories include Musical Max, when the neighbors start complaining about the noise Max stops practicing his trombone, bass, xylophone, flute, harmonica, cymbals, and synthesizer.

Two children watch cloud formations and interpret them for themselves.

Two children play in their backyard during a rainy day.

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

The countryside of New England is depicted in the pictures accompanying this folk song in which a fox travels many miles to get dinner for his wife and ten cubs.