Uri Shulevitz

In the quiet of the night, a sleepy sleepy boy awakes to find the dishes, chairs, and clocks enjoying themselves.

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.

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

Quiet, serious Jeremiah Hush, a monkey who lives alone, becomes involved in adventures at the Shake'n'Roll Dancin Hole, during a search for a missing umbrella, and while attending a county fair, and though he makes new friends, he learns to appreciate his quiet life.

Two young brothers wonder how much money they will receive from their relatives for Hanukkah.

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

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.

Award-winning author Tim Lebbon takes fantasy to new heights in his thrilling new epic as unlikely allies struggle to keep the light of hope burning against a tide of unending darkness...Noreela teeters on the brink of destruction, but at its center pulses a magic grown stroner than ever before. Now the Mages have raised an army of terrifying warriorsand unstoppable war machins. Their goal: the annihilation of all Noreela through a reign of bloodhsed and death unlike any ever imagined.But Noreela's last survivors will not go quietyly into the never-ending darkness. One man will lead a desperate band of rebels, including a witch, a fledge miner, and a dreaming librarian. For an ancient prophecy predicts that the future of magic will emerge in a child still unborn--if only our heroes can stay alive until dawn.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Not knowing the man he meets in the forest is the tsar, a young soldier discloses that he has deserted.

The Treasure is a 1904 novel by the Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf. Set in Bohuslän in the 16th century, it tells the story of a group of Scottish mercenaries who escape from prison; they go on to murder a family to steal a treasure chest, after which one of them falls in love with the family's sole survivor.

En esta historia, basada en los recuerdos de su infancia durante la II Guerra Mundial, Uri Shulevitz cuenta cómo un mapa lo llevó, con la ayuda de su imaginación, muy lejos del hambre, la miseria y el sufrimiento. 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.

Discusses the characteristics, benefits, and disadvantages of snow.