{"id":175,"date":"2008-08-01T00:23:42","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T04:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/01\/review-of-how-i-learned-geography-by-uri-shulevitz\/"},"modified":"2009-02-22T00:09:40","modified_gmt":"2009-02-22T04:09:40","slug":"review-of-how-i-learned-geography-by-uri-shulevitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=175","title":{"rendered":"Review of How I Learned Geography, by Uri Shulevitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image236\" height=\"110\" alt=\"how_i_learned_geography.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/how_i_learned_geography.jpg\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>How I Learned Geography<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Uri Shulevitz<\/p>\n<p>Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, 2008.\u00a0 32 pages.<\/p>\n<p>Starred review.<\/p>\n<p>2009 Caldecott Honor Book.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fsgkidsbooks.com\/\">http:\/\/www.fsgkidsbooks.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When Uri Shulevitz was a boy, he and his family were refugees from Poland.\u00a0 This vibrant picture book tells a simple story.\u00a0 One night, when they were hungry but had little money, Uri&#8217;s father went to the market.\u00a0 Instead of buying bread, he came home with a large map of the world that brightened up one wall of their little room.<\/p>\n<p>Although Uri was angry, and hungry, at first, eventually he pored over the map and was caught under its spell.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I found strange-sounding names on the map and savored their exotic sounds, making a little rhyme out of them:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Fukuoka Takaoka Omsk,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Fukuyama Nagayama Tomsk,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Okazaki Miyazaki Pinsk,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Pennsylvania Transylvania Minsk!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I repeated this rhyme like a magic incantation and was transported far away without ever leaving our room.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This lovely book presents a simple idea in a beautiful way.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0374334994\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on the main site at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Picture_Books\/how_i_learned_geography.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Picture_Books\/how_i_learned_geography.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How I Learned Geography by Uri Shulevitz Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, 2008.\u00a0 32 pages. Starred review. 2009 Caldecott Honor Book. http:\/\/www.fsgkidsbooks.com\/ When Uri Shulevitz was a boy, he and his family were refugees from Poland.\u00a0 This vibrant picture book tells a simple story.\u00a0 One night, when they were hungry but had little money, Uri&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-picture-book-review","category-starred-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}