Best Selling Books by Uri Shulevitz

The boy with the dog watched the snow come down one flake at a time. He watched it build until the city was covered with snow and was fill with awe.

"Boy with dog and grandfather with beard watch holiday lights turn on in the city"--

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.

A Caldecott Honor Book "It''s snowing, said boy with dog. "It''s only a snowflake," said grandfather with beard. No one thinks one or two snowflakes will amount to anything. Not the man with the hat or the lady with the umbrella. Not even the television or the radio forecasters. But one boy and his dog have faith that the snow will amount to something spectacular, and when flakes start to swirl down on the city, they are also the only ones who know how to truly enjoy it. This playful depiction of a snowy day and the transformation of a city is perfectly captured in simple, poetic text and lively watercolor and pen-and-ink illustrations.

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

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.

Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of this classic picture book lullaby from Caldecott Medalist Uri Shulevitz, this dreamy board book edition of So Sleepy Story is the perfect bedtime read for soothing not-so-sleepy little ones. In a sleepy sleepy house everything is so sleepy—until music drifts in through an open window, waking the house from its slumber. Chairs begin to rock, dishes begin to dance, and a sleepy boy opens his eyes. Then, softly, the music drifts out, and everything is sleepy sleepy once more. With calming rhythmic text and gentle, whimsical artwork, celebrated Caldecott Award–winning illustrator Uri Shulevitz has created the ultimate sleepy sleepy before-bed story, sure to become a bedtime-reading ritual for generations to come.

Troto''s a happy little car who likes to go places until he drives all the way to Cactusville and meets some big trucks that tease him for being so small.

A Caldecott Honor Book "It''s snowing, said boy with dog. "It''s only a snowflake," said grandfather with beard. No one thinks one or two snowflakes will amount to anything. Not the man with the hat or the lady with the umbrella. Not even the television or the radio forecasters. But one boy and his dog have faith that the snow will amount to something spectacular, and when flakes start to swirl down on the city, they are also the only ones who know how to truly enjoy it. This playful depiction of a snowy day and the transformation of a city is perfectly captured in simple, poetic text and lively watercolor and pen-and-ink illustrations.

"Harrowing, engaging and utterly honest." —Elizabeth Wein, The New York Times Book Review "A captivating chronicle of eight turbulent years." — The Wall Street Journal A "Best Book of the Year" from: The New York Times ● Publishers Weekly ● Kirkus Reviews ● Booklist ● Jewish Journal ● Horn Book ● Chicago Public Library A National Jewish Book Award Finalist From celebrated Caldecott Award–winning illustrator Uri Shulevitz comes a landmark World War II memoir of hope amid harrowing times and an engaging and unusual Holocaust story. In September 1939 , as German bombs started falling on Warsaw, four-year-old Uri Shulevitz sat still while his mother tied new boots on his feet and told him, "We''ll need to walk a lot." So begins Uri''s arduous eight-year journey with his family, fleeing Poland and the Nazi onslaught for a precarious existence in the Soviet Union. From the freezing wilderness confines of a labor camp all the way north near the White Sea to hunger-filled years of displacement all the way south in the city of Turkestan, Uri recounts the lucky breaks and setbacks that happened to him and his parents along the way. Powerfully illustrated by the author and with a few surviving personal photographs and mementos, Chance: Escape from the Holocaust also depicts young Uri''s awakening as an artist, whose love of making pictures helped sustain him. Altogether, this is a unique, enthralling memoir of a displaced childhood from the beloved Caldecott medalist, the capstone to a remarkable career. Don''t miss Uri Shulevitz''s stunning final published work, The Sky Was My Blanket: A Young Man''s Journey Across Wartime Europe, a gripping true story of a young Polish exile fighting to survive in war-torn Europe.

Anyone wishing to create children''s books will learn how to tell a story visually; build a storyboard to plot the flow of a book; prepare pages for a printer; and go about finding a publisher. Step-by-step sketches provide insights into drawing characters and developing settings. The works of such renowned illustrators as Beatrix Potter, William Steig, and Maurice Sendak are used to demonstrate a visual approach to storytelling. 10 color and 600 b & w illustrations. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

When war devastates their country, a boy and his parents are forced to flee to another country far east, where they must live in a small room shared with another couple. Food is scarce. But one day, when father goes to the bazaar to buy bread, he comes home with a map instead. The boy and his mother are furious, they are so hungry! But the map floods their cheerless room with colour. The boy becomes fascinated by it and is transported far away without ever leaving the room. Father was right to buy it, after all.

The final work from celebrated Caldecott Award–winning illustrator Uri Shulevitz, this gripping and revealing true story follows a young Polish exile fighting to survive in war-torn Europe. Born in the tumult of World War I, a young Jewish boy named Yehiel Szulewicz chafes at the borders of his hometown of Żyrardów, 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, and Spain. With no money and no ID papers, he often sleeps under the stars, with only the sky as his blanket. But even wayfaring Yehiel can’t outrun the evil spreading across Europe in the years leading up to World War II. As the fascists and Nazis rise to power, Yehiel soon finds himself a member of the Spanish Republican Army and then the Jewish Resistance in Vichy France, fighting for freedom, his friends, and his very life. Inspired by the true story of Uri Shulevitz’s uncle and stunningly illustrated by the author, The Sky Was My Blanket is a unique and riveting account of one man’s courage and resilience amidst one of the darkest periods in global history. Don’t miss Uri Shulevitz’s acclaimed memoir, Chance: Escape from the Holocaust: Memories of a Refugee Childhood, which bestselling author Elizabeth Wein called “harrowing, engaging and utterly honest” (New York Times Book Review).

In the little boy''s room there is a whole world. He has a private sun, a private moon, private stars, and many friends. But where is Prince Bear, the one he loves best of all?