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The Sky Was My Blanket: A Young Man's Journey Across Wartime Europe
By SHULEVITZ, Uri
- ISBN
- 9780374392468
- Publisher
- Farrar
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Reviewed on July 25, 2025 | Nonfiction - Middle To High School
Gr 5 Up—This final, posthumously published work from celebrated Caldecott Award-winning illustrator Shulevitz, based on his uncle's experiences across war-torn Europe, offers an incisive look at the period. Jewish Yehiel Szulewicz balks at his super strict and religious family and leaves home, and Poland, at 15 years old. A transient life of survival ensues, in which he travels across Europe, befriends other travelers, and joins the fight aga...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
