Winner of the SCBWI Golden Kite Award for Illustrated Books for Older
Readers
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2020
A New York Times Best Children's Book of 2020
Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2020
Booklist Best Books of 2020
Horn Book Fanfare 2020 Booklist
Chicago Public Library Best of the Best 2020
Jewish Journal Twenty of the Best 2020 (Non-Holiday) Jewish Books
for Kids
A National Jewish Book Award 2020 Finalist for Middle Grade
Fiction
A 2021 Golden Dome Book Award Selection
"Harrowing, engaging and utterly honest." --Elizabeth Wein, The New
York Times Book Review
"A captivating chronicle of eight turbulent years." --The Wall Street
Journal
From a beloved voice in children's literature comes this landmark
memoir of hope amid harrowing times and an engaging and unusual
Holocaust story.
With backlist sales of over 2.3 million copies, Uri Shulevitz, one of
Farrar, Straus and Grioux's most acclaimed picture-book creators,
details the eight-year odyssey of how he and his Jewish family escaped
the terrors of the Nazis by fleeing Warsaw for the Soviet Union in
Chance.
It was during those years, with threats at every turn, that the young
Uri experienced his awakening as an artist, an experience that played a
key role during this difficult time. By turns dreamlike and nightmarish,
this heavily illustrated account of determination, courage, family
loyalty, and the luck of coincidence is a true publishing event.