Peter Ss̕
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
I was born at the beginning of it all, on the Red side - the Communist side - of the Iron Curtain. Through annotated illustrations, journals, maps, and dreamscapes, Peter Sis shows what life was like for a child who loved to draw, proudly wore the red scarf of a Young Pioneer, stood guard at the giant statue of Stalin, and believed whatever he was told to believe. But adolescence brought questions. Cracks began to appear in the Iron Curtain, and news...
2) Ship ahoy!
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
A child on a sofa imagines it turning into a succession of ships, culminating in an encounter with a sea monster.