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    Dusk

    By Uri Shulevitz

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    One December afternoon, boy with dog and grandfather with beard take a walk to watch the sun begin to set over the river. When the sun drops low in the sky, they start home. Buildings grow dimmer. People are rushing. As nature's lights go out, one by one, city's lights turn on, revealing brilliant Hanukkah, Kwanza, and Christmas displays in streets, homes, and stores. A stunning picture book that's sure to be a winter holiday classic by Caldecott Medalist Uri Shulevitz.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateSep 17, 2013
    ISBN9781466844971
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    Dusk
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    Uri Shulevitz

    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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    • 4/5
      A companion to Snow. Light on plot but elegantly atmospheric and magical.
    • 1/5
      This book was not that interesting to me. It was a b=good book, but it just didn't spark my interests.
    • 4/5
      A boy, his dog, and his grandfather go for a walk in the city. It starts getting dark and the boy becomes sad. As they continued to walk, the street lights come on and all the shops are glowing in holiday decorations! Looks like the city is day time again with all the lights glowing!
    • 4/5
      Uri Shulevitz is one of my favorite author/illustrators. To me he is sort of a Maurice-Sendak-Lite. His drawings share with Sendak a lot of whimsy and attention to detail, but his stories tend not to focus on the darker aspects of childhood that so often recur as a theme for Sendak. In Dusk, it is winter, close to the holidays, and a “boy with dog and grandfather with beard go for a walk.” The boy is sad when the sun starts to sink in the sky. The grandfather announces “Dusk.” They walk back to the city, and pass all kinds of different people hurrying home or going out to shop. For example, one lady is seeking food for her cat, and one man is looking for toys for his children. A “visitor from the planet Zataplat” is also out and about:"Dusky musky, dusky zdat,kholidaysky ikla zat,sveet candoosky ikla bloosky,bedy funnye ikla zdat,”said visitor from planet Zataplat.”As they wend their way, they see more and more lights coming on, walking by holiday displays in the shop windows. Eventually, it seems as light as day! As always, Shulevitz includes bookstores in his pictures, as well as reminders to read books. His watercolors are lovely and full of surprises, like small, fun details to a reader with careful eyes.Evaluation: This book would make lovely holiday and/or winter reading for the age 3-8 set, if they can pry the book away from their parents.