Uri Shulevitz

A child indoors watches the rain on the window and in the streets and tells how it falls on the fields, hills, and seas.

"Boy with dog and grandfather with beard watch holiday lights turn on in the city"--

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.