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London Bridge Is Falling Down ($1.25) and The Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night (95?), by Peter Spier, Doubleday...
...appointment at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. In turn, the hospital has established strong training programs for interns, nurses and medical students, along with residencies in the major specialties. "We are better off training here than in the city," says Third Year Surgical Resident Roger Spier. "We learn how to deal with patients as people as well as people as patients." Attracted by the opportunities and an average staff salary of $30,000 a year, many former residents seek to stay on after they complete their training...
...Erie Canal (Doubleday, $4.50) is the 30th book by Peter Spier, a Dutch-born, academy-trained artist whose illustrations are to most juvenile scenery what a Tiepolo ceiling is to a hand-decorated pup tent. Too many children's books present lumpily massive, poster-hued semi-primitive drawings that intrigue for only one or two cheerful skim-throughs. Spier, by contrast, spends months accumulating visual research and folios of tiny sketches for his subjects. When he shows the 19th century harbor of Honfleur (in Hurrah, We're Outward Bound!) or the 18th century Thameside (in London Bridge...
...GARDEN GROWS, by Peter Spier (Doubleday; $3.95). A collection of nursery rhymes and riddles record the not so imaginary Italian journey of two children. Spier did the illustrations on location mainly in and around Florence. His delicate pen-and-ink scenes overlayed with soft colors show off with rare beau ty everything from the drab yard of a Florentine suburb to a towering 14th century villa...
There are exceptions. The Fox, illustrated by Peter Spier (Doubleday; $2.95), has delicate, colored pen drawings, and the text, an old song, is good enough to sing. Mary Britton Miller's Listen-the Birds, illustrated by Evaline Ness (Pantheon; $3), achieves unpatronizing verse. The poet knows enough about chickadees to know they actually say chicka-dee-dee-dee, but the child who hopes to see live birds like the ones illustrated will be sadly deceived. James and the Giant Peach, by Roald Dahl (Knopf; $3.95), has illustrations in good old-fashioned pen and ink, though the subject matter...