Uri Shulevitz

"The first middle-grade book from a picture book master--a harrowing, heartrending, illustrated account of his childhood escape from the terrors of war"-- Provided by publisher.

As he spends hours studying his father's world map, a young boy escapes the hunger and misery of refugee life. Based on the author's childhood in Kazakhstan, where he lived as a Polish refugee during World War II.

In the quiet of the night, a sleepy sleepy boy awakes to find the dishes, chairs, and clocks enjoying themselves.

"Born in the tumult of World War I, a young Jewish boy named Yehiel Szulewicz chafes at the borders of his hometown of Zyrardów, Poland, and at the rules set in place by his restrictive parents. Brimming with a desire for true adventure, he leaves home at fifteen-and-a-half years old to seek his future elsewhere. Little does Yehiel know, he’ll never see his parents again. His journey takes him beyond Polish borders, to Austria, Croatia, France,...

The king and the queen and their growing entourage return each morning to a tenement street until the little boy they have come to visit is home to greet them.

A retelling of the traditional English tale in which a poor man follows the advice of his dream and is eventually led to a treasure.

The king's clever treasurer tries to clear his name when the chief minister accuses the treasurer of stealing.

A retelling of the traditional English tale in which a poor man follows the advice of his dream and is eventually led to a treasure.

To postpone sleep a small boy imagines all of the noisiest things he knows.