Having fled from war in their troubled homeland, a boy and his
family are living in poverty in a strange country. Food is scarce,
so when the boy’s father brings home a map instead of bread for
supper, at first the boy is furious. But when the map is hung on
the wall, it floods their cheerless room with color. As the boy
studies its every detail, he is transported to exotic places
without ever leaving the room, and he eventually comes to realize
that the map feeds him in a way that bread
關於作者：
Uri Shulevitz is a Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator
and author. He was born in Warsaw, Poland, on February 27, 1935. He
began drawing at the age of three and, unlike many children, never
stopped. The Warsaw blitz occurred when he was four years old, and
the Shulevitz family fled. For eight years they were wanderers,
arriving, eventually, in Paris in 1947. There Shulevitz developed
an enthusiasm for French comic books, and soon he and a friend
started making their own. At thirteen, Shulevitz won first prize in
an all-elementary-school drawing competition in Paris''s 20th
district. In 1949, the family moved to Israel, where
Shulevitz worked a variety of jobs: an apprentice at a rubber-stamp
shop, a carpenter, and a dog-license clerk at Tel Aviv City Hall.
He studied at the Teachers'' Institute in Tel Aviv, where he took
courses in literature, anatomy, and biology, and also studied at
the Art Institute of Tel Aviv. At fifteen, he was the youngest to
exhibit in a group drawing show at the Tel Aviv Museum. At 24
he moved to New York City, where he studied painting at Brooklyn
Museum Art School and drew illustrations for a publisher of Hebrew
books. One day while talking on the telephone, he noticed that his
doodles had a fresh and spontaneous look—different from his
previous illustrations. This discovery was the beginning of Uri''s
new approach to his illustrations for The Moon in My Room, his
first book, published in 1963. Since then he was written and
illustrated many celebrated children’s books. He won the Caldecott
Medal for The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship, written
by Arthur Ransome. He has also earned three Caldecott Honors, for
The Treasure, Snow and How I Learned
Geography. His other books include One Monday Morning,
Dawn, So Sleepy Story,and many others. He also wrote
the instructional guide Writing with Pictures: How to Write and
Illustrate Children’s Books. He lives in New York
City.
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