New Releases by Uri Shulevitz

Describes the daily activities and dangers shared by the penguins and other animal inhabitants of Antarctica.

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.

Impressionné par les réponses d''un pauvre homme, le roi en fait son trésorier. Ce conte met en valeur non seulement l''intelligence, mais aussi la sagesse: une excellente morale.

The Toddlecreek post office, presided over by Vernon Stamps, is a special place in the small village where friends gather. One spring morning something happens to disrupt the way of life and things are never the same again.

Anyone wishing to create children''s books will learn how to tell a story visually; build a storyboard to plot the flow of a book; prepare pages for a printer; and go about finding a publisher. Step-by-step sketches provide insights into drawing characters and developing settings. The works of such renowned illustrators as Beatrix Potter, William Steig, and Maurice Sendak are used to demonstrate a visual approach to storytelling. 10 color and 600 b & w illustrations. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

A retelling of the traditional English tale in which a poor man follows the advice of his dream and is eventually led to a treasure.

Even though they were poor, the people of Chelm were content with their lives until the Council of Sages made them aware of their problems.

To postpone sleep a small boy imagines all of the noisiest things he knows.

Based on the author''s childhood in Kazakhstan, where he lived as a Polish refugee during World War II, Uri describes how he would spend hours studying his father''s world map as he escaped the hunger and misery of a refugee life.