Professor Noah's Spaceship

By Brian Wildsmith

Book Overview

Inspired by the need for environmental protection, Brian Wildsmith explores what would happen if Professor Noah were able to build a spaceship to remove animals from their endangered habitats and find... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590758144
• ISBN13: 9780590758147
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Kids will like it, adults will hate it

This book casually ignores convention in a storyline that would appear straightforward if it didn't cut across so many adult-defined genres. Is it an animal story? Is it SF? Is it Biblical? Is it environmental? It's just a story. Young kids don't care about adult categories; they just like stories. The illustrations are bright and, like the storyline, free from adult conventions. The spaceship doesn't look like Star Trek, nor should it. This book is not for adults. It jars our nerves because we see that the author is trying to draw a lesson about the harmony of the Old Testament and environmentalism. But who cares? For kids ... it's just a basic "journey there-and-back-again" storybook to enjoy. If they pick up some other stuff too, well enough, but give them a break ... there's time enough for education another day!

Awesome if only for the illustrations!!!

Amazing, eye-popping art makes this a true must-have. So much to see in each illustration that kids will look through the book for hours! Really enjoyable.