How I Learned Geography
Illustrator
Uri Shulevitz
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication Year
2008
ISBN
9780374334994
Pages
32 pages
Genre
realism
Format
picture book
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
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.
Grade Level
PK-1; K-3
Lexile Measure
AD660L
Diversity Topics
Family Relationships; Culture/Ethnicity; Homelessness; Immigrants and refugees; homeless family; refugee family; evacuees
Main Character
male child
Race/Ethnicities
White (Kazakh)
Family Formation
mother and father
Awards
Charlotte Zolotow Award, 2009, Honor Book
Cybils Awards, 2008, Finalist, Fiction Picture Book
Parents' Choice Award, 2008, Silver, Non Fiction
Randolph Caldecott Medal, 2009, Honor Book
Keywords
war; World War II; maps; geography; imagination; hunger; Kazakhstan
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Shulevitz, Uri, "How I Learned Geography" (2008). Diverse Families. 1890.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/1890