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How I learned geography / Uri Shulevitz.

Shulevitz, Uri, 1935- (author).

Summary:

Having fled from war in their troubled homeland, a boy and his family are living in poverty in a strange country. Food is scarce, so when the boy's father brings home a map instead of bread for supper, at first the boy is furious. But when the map is hung on the wall, it floods their cheerless room with color. As the boy studies its every detail, he is transported to exotic places without ever leaving the room, and he eventually comes to realize that the map feeds him in a way that bread never could.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780374334994
  • ISBN: 0374334994
  • ISBN: 9780329708870
  • ISBN: 0329708872
  • Physical Description: 32 pages,: color illustrations ; 26 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, [2008]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Art techniques used:watercolor and ink in a detailed folk like style. Includes one historic photograph.
Target Audience Note:
660 Lexile.
Awards Note:
Caldecott Honor Book, 2009
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2009.
Charlotte Zolotow Award Honor, 2009.

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Subject: Shulevitz, Uri, 1935- > Childhood and youth > Juvenile fiction.
Refugees > Juvenile fiction.
Maps > Juvenile fiction.
Geography > Juvenile fiction.
Imagination > Juvenile fiction.
Genre: Juvenile works
Picture books for children.
Maps.

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586 . ‡aCaldecott Honor Book, 2009
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