HOW I LEARNED GEOGRAPHY
Product Description
Winner of the Caldecott Honor 2009
By Uri Shulevitz
Having traveled a long was from their troubled homeland, a boy and his family are living in poverty in a strange new country. The boy has no toys and no books, and, worst of all, food is scarce. But than instead of bread his father brings home a map and hangs it on the wall. Suddenly, without ever leaving the room, the boy is transported to exotic places.
In this story, based on his childhood memories of World War II, Uri Shulevitz tells how a map and his imagination took him far away from his hunger and misery.
Ages 4-8
By Uri Shulevitz
Having traveled a long was from their troubled homeland, a boy and his family are living in poverty in a strange new country. The boy has no toys and no books, and, worst of all, food is scarce. But than instead of bread his father brings home a map and hangs it on the wall. Suddenly, without ever leaving the room, the boy is transported to exotic places.
In this story, based on his childhood memories of World War II, Uri Shulevitz tells how a map and his imagination took him far away from his hunger and misery.
Ages 4-8
