![]() ![]() The child went to bed filled with anger and shame. The seemingly frivolous purchase was met with ire by the wife and the hungry boy. So, it was a serious decision when the father in the story (and Uri’s own father in actuality) chose one day to invest the pennies available for daily bread to buy a wall map. War refugees lived in trying circumstances and existed primarily on small parcels of bread. The storybook recreates Uri’s life in that Turkestan village through the character of a little boy fleeing exactly the same tragedy. After a number of years, the Shulevitz family found a pathway to Paris, and ultimately Israel. ![]() There, everything was harsh and unwelcoming. The family was taken to a refugee camp in the remote steppes of Turkestan. Born in Warsaw in 1935, he fled with his family after the Nazis incinerated the city center in 1944 and razed Warsaw to the ground. Touchingly illustrated by the author, the story is based on Shulevitz’s actual childhood. One of my favorite children’s books happens to be Uri Shulevitz’s How I Learned Geography. ![]()
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