Uri Shulevitz

As he spends hours studying his father's world map, a young boy escapes the hunger and misery of refugee life. Based on the author's childhood in Kazakhstan, where he lived as a Polish refugee during World War II.

A young child spends the day imagining himself to be a sailor on a grand adventure.

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.

Not knowing the man he meets in the forest is the tsar, a young soldier discloses that he has deserted.