Hurrah, We're Outward Bound!

Mother Goose Library #3

by Peter Spier (Illustrator)

Accompanying the 1830 maiden voyage of La Jeune Francaise from the wharfs of Honfleur, France to New York and back via Dartmouth, England is an assortment of rhymes and sea chanteys.

Library Binding

First published January 1, 1968

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.

Reviews

[Michael Fitzgerald · Rating 3 out of 5]

Wish there were music included for the songs.