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Noah's Ark is a picture book written and illustrated by Peter Spier, first published by Doubleday in 1977. The text includes Spier's translation of "The Flood" by Jacobus Revius, a 17th-century poem telling the Bible story of Noah's Ark. According to Kirkus Reviews, the poem comprises sixty three-syllable lines such as "Pair by pair" (in translation). "Without revising or even enlarging on the old story, Spier fills it in, delightfully."

For Noah's Ark Spier won the 1978 Caldecott Medal for illustration and the 1982 National Book Award for Children's Books in category Picture Books (paperback).

Description
Noah's Ark is a small format paperback book measuring 10.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.16(d) in dimension. The bee and the fox, the sheep and the ox - two of each kind trudged aboard Noah's famous vessel. The story of Noah and his ark, his family and all their many guests, is here retold almost entirely in pictures of great charm and intricate detail. Peter Spier uses his own translation of a seventeenth-century Dutch poem about this most famous menagerie. Winner of: The American Book Award, An ALA Notable Children's Book, A New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year (1977), The Christopher Award, International Board on Books for Young People Honor List. Recommended for ages 4 to 8. A 1978 Caldecott Medal winner.

Plot
This is a simple retelling of the Old Testament story of Noah, who followed God's orders to build a great ark in preparation for the coming flood.

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This is Not My Hat is a small format paperback book measuring 11.3 x 0.4 x 8.2 inches in dimension. This is Not My Hat received favorable reviews including Kirkus Reviews describing it as a "darkly comic haberdashery whodunit." with "sublime book design", Common Sense Media calling it "slyly funny", and Publishers Weekly writing "Klassen excels at using pictures to tell the parts of the story his unreliable narrators omit or evade." and concluding "Tough times call for tough picture books." The Horn Book Magazine found it "Darkly hilarious." while the School Library Journal wrote "This not-to-be-missed title will delight children again and again." It was the winner of the 2013 Caldecott Medal and of the 2014 Kate Greenaway Medal. From the creator of the #1 New York Times best-selling and award-winning I Want My Hat Back comes a second wry tale.

Plot
A clever little fish has just stolen a hat and openly announces this to the reader on the first page. He says he stole it from a big fish, but he is confident that he will never get caught. After all, the big fish was asleep at the time and probably will be for a long time-right? Well, not exactly. While the text is comprised of the confident narrative/dialog of the little fish, the illustrations tell a different story-one that confirms that the little fish is way off base-perhaps even a bit in denial towards the end-when it comes to escaping with the hat unnoticed.

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This New York Times Bestseller and New York Times Best Illustrated Book relates a story about love and loss as only Chris Rashcka can tell it. Any child who has ever had a beloved toy break will relate to Daisy's anguish when her favorite ball is destroyed by a bigger dog. In the tradition of his nearly wordless picture book ''Yo! Yes?,'' Caldecott Medalist Chris Raschka explores in pictures the joy and sadness that having a special toy can bring. Raschka's signature swirling, impressionistic illustrations and his affectionate story will particularly appeal to young dog lovers and teachers and parents who have children dealing with the loss of something special.

Author
Over fifty books have been illustrated by Chris Raschka. He has not only illustrated children's books for other authors but also illustrated his own books. Raschka's illustrating technique uses oil or crayon to visually amuse the audience/reader. He uses many different and vibrant colors to capture the story.

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A Ball for Daisy is a children's picture book that tells the story of a white dog named Daisy and her favorite ball. Daisy is so obsessed with the ball that she takes it everywhere with her, sleeps with it and overall has to be near it constantly. As her owner takes Daisy out for a walk one day, her ball gets snatched by a brown dog wanting to play. Daisy tried her hardest to get the ball back but the other dog insists on playing with it and accidentally pops it. Daisy's owner then throws the ball in the trash and takes Daisy home. For a while Daisy acts distraught over her loss. Later, Daisy's owner takes her for another walk and on the walk they see the same dog that popped Daisy's ball but this time that dog has a shiny new blue ball. The other dog gives the blue ball to Daisy, which makes her very happy.

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Trixie can't wait to bring her one-of-a-kind Knuffle Bunny to school and show him off to everyone. But when she gets there, she sees something awful: Sonja has the same bunny. Suddenly, Knuffle Bunny doesn't seem so one-of-a-kind anymore. Chaos ensues until the bunnies are taken away by Ms. Greengrove. After school, Trixie finally gets her beloved bunny back. But in the middle of the night, Trixie realizes something. She has the wrong bunny. Daddy comes to the rescue again as a midnight swap is arranged with the other bunny, the other little girl, and the other daddy. Needless to say, the daddies are not very happy. By the end of the story Trixie has her beloved bunny back, but she has also gained something new: her very first best friend.

Knuffle Bunny Too is a format paperback book that measures 9.2 x 0.4 x 12.5 inches.

Plot
In the book, a young girl named Trixie realizes that her classmate Sonja has the same type of "Knuffle Bunny" toy that she does. When the jealous girls begin arguing, their teacher confiscates the stuffed animals, returning them at the end of the school day. At 2:30 AM, Trixie realizes that her teacher has given her Sonja's bunny, and asks her father to call Sonja's house to exchange toys.

Reception
Newsday ' s Sonja Bolle praised the book for its "inventive illustration style" and said, "Anyone who fell in love with the first 'Knuffle Bunny' two years ago will pounce on this sequel, even if they've grown up since then." Leonard S. Marcus of the New York Times Book Review added, "Willems has a brilliant knack for exposing early childhood's developmental pivot points, and for lampooning the best efforts of today's hip but hapless parents to do the right thing."

Awards
The book was awarded a Caldecott Honor in 2008. A sequel, and the conclusion of the trilogy, is Knuffle Bunny Free: An Unexpected Diversion.

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The eyes have it in Jon Klassen's latest hat book. Klassen manages to tell almost the whole story through subtle eye movements and the tilt of seaweed and air bubbles. The wide-eyed little fish on the cover looks guilty in which he really is. He has taken the tiny bowler from the head of a large sleeping fish and pleads his case to the reader. He explains why he will never be caught — the fish is asleep; he won’t wake up or notice the missing hat; and he won’t know who took it or where the thief has gone. The culprit continues to flee the scene of the crime, moving to “where the plants are big and tall and close together.” Once he reaches his destination, the reader sees the little guy for the last time, disappearing amidst the “safety” of the seaweed. The final spread is laugh-out-loud funny: the large fish now sports the teeny hat, eyes closed and relaxed in slumber. The seaweed wafts innocently, and the air bubbles are calm. Since every claim the little fish makes is belied by the pictures, the reader is in on the joke, by turns rooting for him to get away and nervously hoping he is caught. Klassen continues to be the master of black and brown, and the viewer will not tire of the palette. Little eyes will pore over the end pages, looking for evidence of foul play, but all the interaction between the two characters takes place where the plants grow tall and close together, obscuring the view. It is a double-page spread and it’s nothing but plants: browns and pinks and greens and blacks. These plants are the little fish’s hiding place. On the previous spread, the big fish — furious, vengeful — entered the reeds. And now, the little fish, that compulsive chatterbox, no longer speaks. (He won’t speak again.) The violence happens off-screen: the bear eats the rabbit during a page turn. But in the fish book, at this crucial moment, we are present. After laughing at this little thief, after reveling in knowing more than he does, we find ourselves suddenly helpless. We’re right there, watching, but we can’t see through the plants. Still, we can imagine what’s happening. We can’t help imagining it. And so while we’re present for the book’s dreadful climax, we’re not quite witnesses. It’s a masterful bit of picture-book craftsmanship. What goes on behind the plants is no secret, but it is private. And anyway, it’s the stuff that happens next, when we turn the page and everything has changed, that really matters.

Plot
When a tiny fish shoots into view wearing a round blue topper which happens to fit him perfectly, trouble could be following close behind. So it’s a good thing that enormous fish won’t wake up. And even if he does, it’s not like he’ll ever know what happened. Visual humor swims to the fore as the best-selling Jon Klassen follows his breakout debut with another deadpan-funny tale. A clever little fish has just stolen a hat and openly announces this to the reader on the first page. He says he stole it from a big fish, but he is confident that he will never get caught. After all, the big fish was asleep at the time and probably will be for a long time-right? Well, not exactly. While the text is comprised of the confident narrative/dialog of the little fish, the illustrations tell a different story-one that confirms that the little fish is way off base-perhaps even a bit in denial towards the end-when it comes to escaping with the hat unnoticed.

Development
Klassen was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, in 1981 and grew up in Niagara Falls and Toronto, Ontario. He studied animation at Sheridan College, graduated in 2005, and moved to Los Angeles. That year he made an animated short with Dan Rodriques called "An Eye for Annai." He worked on animation of the feature films Kung Fu Panda (2008) and Coraline (2009) and he was art director for the 2009 animated music video of "I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight" by U2.

In 2010, Klassen achieved international recognition when he was awarded the Governor General's Award for English-language children's illustration for his work on the picture book Cats' Night Out, written by Carolyn Stutson. He also illustrated The Mysterious Howling by Maryrose Wood, the first novel in a HarperCollins series called The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place along with the second and third, and the first edition hardcover of the fourth novel in the series.

Klassen illustrated The Dark (2013), written by Lemony Snicket, which made the Greenaway Medal shortlist of eight books alongside This Is Not My Hat. He teamed up with Mac Barnett again in 2014, on a picture book published by Candlewick, Sam and Dave Dig a Hole.

First Edition ( I Want My Hat Back )
His first solo picture book was I Want My Hat Back, published by Candlewick Press in September 2011. It features a bear looking for his hat, who finally and off-page eats the rabbit who stole it. The New York Times Book Review named it one of the "10 Best Illustrated Children's Books for 2011". The book was published in September by Candlewick Press. Klassen said of the ending, which has been called a "subversive risk", that "there was no other way for it to end". It achieved considerable commercial success, and even became an internet meme when people started "posting their own versions of the story". Pamela Paul praised the book in review for The New York Times: "it is a wonderful and astonishing thing, the kind of book that makes child laugh and adult chuckle, and both smile in appreciation ... [it is] a charmingly wicked little book and the debut of a promising writer-illustrator talent." According to the Chicago Tribune, "the joy of this book lies in figuring out the explicit plot from the implicit details in the pictures." There has been some discussion of the ending, however: is it appropriate in a children's book that one character kills another without repercussion? A bookseller, who "need[ed] to go on record as saying I LOVE this book", reported that some customers love it until they turn the last pages. It was a runner-up for the American Geisel Award (books for beginning readers) and made the Greenaway shortlist.

Modified Edition
Jon Klassen modified the story in a companion book one year later, This Is Not My Hat (Candlewick, 2012). It features a little fish who steals and wears the hat of a big fish, whom the little one evades until the last pages. Finally the big fish swims back into the book, wearing the hat, with no sign of the thief. This one won the Caldecott and Greenaway Medals, from the American and British professional librarians respectively. The Caldecott annually recognizes the illustrator of the previous year's "most distinguished American picture book for children". According to the award committee, "With minute changes in eyes and the slightest displacement of seagrass, Klassen's masterful illustrations tell the story the narrator doesn't know." The Greenaway recognizes "distinguished illustration in a book for children", not necessarily a picture book. According to the British judges, "The format and layout work perfectly to convey the underwater location with the movement of the action flowing with the water from left to right. ... The juxtaposition of text and image works with perfect comic timing. Amazing expression is conveyed by the eyes and dramatic tension by little bubbles." The Greenaway is paired in a London announcement and presentation ceremony with the Carnegie Medal for children's literature, which recognized a controversially grim young-adult novel in 2014. According to the press release, "both winners independently argued that children benefit from stories without happy endings." Klassen said in his acceptance speech, "Making a book, you're kind of going out on a limb in the belief that what you think of as a satisfying story is the same as what other people think of as a satisfying story. This doesn't mean everything in the story turns out alright for everybody, but you, as a storyteller, try and make sure it ends the way the story should end."

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