SPIER, Peter - Of Dikes and Windmills - (Hardcover in Wrapper)

Very expensive and sought after overseas - The few thatare available worldwide are selling between $ 50 and $ 200 - Book and wrapper still in a very good condition even though it belonged to a library before - Seems to not have been taken out - 187 pages as well as a very comprehenseve index behing - Many diagrams, maps and stunning illustrations done by the author.    >>> Relates the struggle of the people of Holland since 500 B.C. to reclaim land from the sea using windmills and dikes.   >>>   eter Spier has established himself as one of the most gifted illustrators in this county. His Noah's Ark was the 1978 Caldecott Award winner, whileThe 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 BookAward. The Erie Canal and Noah's Ark both won Christopher Awards, while Gobble, Growl, Gruntreceived Honorable Mention in the first Children's Science Book Award program, sponsored by the New York Academy of Science. 

*N.B.*  Dis natuurlik beter om meer as een boek by my te koop want dan betaal jy net R 6 posgeld vir elk van jou verdere boeke – Kyk wat het ek nog, dis dalk die moeite werd.