Fire House

Village Board Books

by Peter Spier

Text and pictures present a day's activities with firefighters. On heavy board paper cut in the shape of a firehouse.

11 pages, Board book

First published January 1, 1981

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

[Noel Tomlinson]

Fire House is about what goes on in a fire station, and the roles that firemen have while they're on duty. It shows the equipment and tools that they use, and it even includes a dog that fire fighters typically have by their side.

I thought this book is really cute, especially for children that dream of being a fire fighter. The shape of the book itself is really cool, because it's in the shape of a fire station.

If I were teaching a preschool class, I would maybe read this to them for fun, but this one would be good to just have on the shelf for when students need something to do if they finish their work early.