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Translated by Seymour Barofsky.
Illustrated by
Maurice Sendak.
In a brief but touching first-person narrative, Maurice Sendak's father describes how he left Poland for America. He then relates a naive, moralistic tale in which a grandfather teaches values to his grandson. Images in this shtetl fairy tale fly by as if in a Chagall dream; lovingly rendered drawings add a dimension of magic to the simple story.