ISBN: 978-5-00074-005-7 Author: Uri Shulevitz Illustrator: Uri Shulevitz Publisher:Karrera Press
Pages: 32 pp Weight: 416 g Dimensions: 262x262x7 mm
Everything told in this book really happened. This book is about how you can rejoice and be happy even if you have no food, toys, or cozy home. None at all.
There is a war. Uri Shulevitz is only four years old. Together with his parents, he leaves his home and goes to Kazakhstan—an unfamiliar country, an unfamiliar language, poverty, hunger. And then one day, when there is not even enough money for a piece of bread, his father buys a geography map. And it turns out that there is nothing more interesting than traveling through deserts and oceans, to distant huge cities and wonderful corners of the earth. In your imagination.
Uri Shulevitz became a famous artist and traveled all around the world. But he carried the memory of that infinitely precious gift from his father through his entire life. In 2009, the book "How I Learned Geography" received the Caldecott Medal and was named the best children's book of the year (Bank Street College of Education). For children to be read by adults.
