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"--

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.

Relates the doings of the Emperor of Pickleberry and his ingenious talking bird Lou.

In the quiet of the night, a sleepy sleepy boy awakes to find the dishes, chairs, and clocks enjoying themselves. In a sleepy sleepy house everything is so sleepy - until music drifts in through an open window. Chairs begin to rock, dishes begin to dance, and a sleepy boy opens his eyes to the revelry of the once-sleepy house. Then, softly, the music drifts out, and everything is sleepy sleepy once more.

Winner of the SCBWI Golden Kite Award for Illustrated Books for Older Readers
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2020
A New York Times Best Children's Book of 2020
Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2020
Booklist Best Books of 2020
Horn Book Fanfare 2020 Booklist
Chicago Public Library Best of the Best 2020
Jewish Journal Twenty of the Best

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A child indoors watches the rain on the window and in the streets and tells how it falls on the fields, hills, and seas.

Camped for the night by a lake, a boy and his grandfather experience dawn from their row boat.

A young child spends the day imagining himself to be a sailor on a grand adventure.

The Toddlecreek post office, presided over by Vernon Stamps, is a special place in the small village where friends gather. One spring morning something happens to disrupt the way of life and things are never the same again.