The song of the whales

The song of the whales

by Uri Orlev
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Michael's grandfather has a secret--a secret that's almost too strange to share.

When Michael moves to Israel, he leaves loneliness behind and steps into the light of his grandfather's magic.

Like a sorcerer's apprentice, Michael learns ho.

First published
2010
Publishers
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Subjects
Grandfathers·Fiction·Dreams·Fiction·Old age·Fiction·Family life·Israel·Fiction·Jews·Israel·Fiction·Jerusalem·Fiction·Israel·Fiction

Uri Orlev

About Uri Orlev

Uri Orlev (Hebrew: אורי אורלב‎; born Jerzy Henryk Orlowski in 1931) is an award-winning Israeli children's author and translator of Polish-Jewish origin. Born in Warsaw, Poland, he survived the war years in the Warsaw Ghetto and the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp (where he was sent after his mother was shot by the Nazis). After the war he moved to Israel. He began writing children's literature in 1976 and has since published over 30 books, which are often biographical. His books have been translated from Hebrew into 25 languages, while he himself has also translated Polish literature into Hebrew. One of his most famous books, which was also adapted as a play and as a film, is the semi-autobiographical The Island on Bird Street.In 1996 Orlev received the Hans Christian Andersen Award for children's literature....

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