“Harrowing, engaging and utterly honest.” —Elizabeth Wein, The New York Times Book Review“A captivating chronicle of eight turbulent years.” —The Wall Street JournalA “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 SCBWI Golden Kite Award Winner A Golden Dome Book Award SelectionFrom 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.

Snow is a 1998 New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year and a 1999 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. Uri Shulevitz' 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.

Snow is a 1998 New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year and a 1999 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. Uri Shulevitz'' 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 JournalA “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 SCBWI Golden Kite Award Winner A Golden Dome Book Award SelectionFrom 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.

Snow is a 1998 New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year and a 1999 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. Uri Shulevitz' 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.

Snow is a 1998 New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year and a 1999 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. Uri Shulevitz'' 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.