How I taught geography. Shulevits U.

Everything that is described in this book happened in fact.

This book is that you can rejoice and be happy, even if you do not have food, toys, a cozy house. Not at all.

There is a war. Uri Shulevitsa is only four years old. Together with his parents, he leaves his home and leaves for Kazakhstan - an unfamiliar country, an unfamiliar language, poverty, hunger. And then one day, when there is not enough money even for a piece of bread, the father buys a geographical map. And it turns out that there is nothing more interesting than traveling through the deserts and oceans, distant huge cities and wonderful corners of the Earth. In the imagination.

Uri Shulevits became a famous artist and traveled the whole world. But he carried the memory of that infinitely expensive gift of his father through his whole life.

In 2009, the book “How I taught geography” received the Kaldecott Award and was called the best children's book of the year (Bank Street College of Education).

for reading adults.