Best Selling Books by Uri Shulevitz

A fictionalized account of the travels of Benjamin, a Jewish man from Tudela, Spain, who, in 1159, set out on a fourteen-year-long journey that took him to Italy, Greece, Palestine, Persia, China, Egypt, and Sicily.

Three times a voice comes to Isaac in his dreams and tells him to go to the capital city and look for a treasure under the bridge by the royal palace. Feeling a little foolish perhaps, but determined to see for himself if the dream is true, Isaac sets out on his long journey. What he finds makes a surprising and heart-warming ending to this retelling of a well-known folk tale. In a few words, Cadelcott Medal winner Uri Shulevitz draws a man who is innocent enough to have faith in a dream, and wise enough to understand the greatest reward of all. Isaac''s solitary journey, his arrival at hte vast city, and his discovery there are all enriched by Mr. Shulevitz''s beautifully detailed illustrations, which masterfully capture the spirit of the original tale while keeping it simple enough for the very youngest reader. The Treasure is a 1980 Caldecott Honor Book and a 1979 New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Book of the Year.

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

To postpone sleep a small boy imagines all of the noisiest things he knows.

An old couple, with neither food nor candles to celebrate Passover, receive a mysterious visitor who supplies everything they need.

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.

In his room, a young boy has his own sun, moon, stars, flowers, train, and more, but his world is incomplete until he finds his dear bear.