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Why Noah Chose the Dove

Why Noah Chose the Dove( )
Translator: Shub, Elizabeth
Illustrator: Carle, Eric
Author: Singer, Isaac Bashevis
ISBN:978-0-374-48382-1
Publication Date:Sep 1987
Publisher:Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Imprint:Sunburst
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $7.99
Book Description:

"Singer's latest retelling from the Old Testament gives a new dimension to the story of the Flood. Children will enjoy hearing the different animals praise their own special qualities so that each will be assured a place on Noah's Ark." --School Library Journal

Book Details
Pages:32
Detailed Subjects: Juvenile Nonfiction / Religion / Bible Stories / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):7.7 x 12.82 x 0.125 Inches
Book Weight:0.35 Pounds
Author Biography
Singer, Isaac Bashevis (Translator)
Eric Carle is an award-winning, children's picture book author and illustrator whose most recognized work is The Very Hungry Caterpillar Board Book. Carle was born to German parents in 1929 in Syracuse, New York. The family returned to Germany in 1935, moving to a suburb of Stuttgart. Carle disliked high school, quitting at the age of 16 before graduation. He was admitted as the youngest student to the Akademie der bildenden Kunste, an art school.

After finishing at the Akademie, he worked as a poster designer for the U.S. Information Center in Germany until 1952, when he moved back to New York City. He was a graphic designer at the New York Times and later worked as an art director at L.W. Frohlich & Co. In 1963, Bill Martin, Jr. saw a poster of a red lobster that Carle had designed and asked him to illustrate Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?, thus launching his freelance career. Among his many children's books are Dream Snow, Hello, Red Fox, The Very Clumsy Click Beetle, and Pancakes, Pancakes! His title The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse made Publisher's Weekly Best Seller List for 2011. His title Brown Bear Brown Bear What to You See? made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2012. In 2015 he made The New Zealand Best Seller List with Love from the Very Hungry Caterpillar.

Eric Carle, beloved children's book author and illustrator, died on May 23, 2021. He was 91.

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