Chance

<p><b>Winner of the SCBWI Golden Kite Award for Illustrated Books for Older Readers</b><br><b>A <i>Publishers Weekly</i> Best Book of 2020</b><br><b>A <i>New York Times </i>Best Children's Book of 2020</b><br><b><i>Kirkus Reviews</i> Best Books of 2020</b><br><b><i>Booklist</i> Best Books of 2020</b><br><b><i>Horn Book</i> Fanfare 2020 Booklist</b><br><b>Chicago Public Library Best of the Best 2020</b><br><b><i>Jewish Journal</i> Twenty of the Best 2020 (Non-Holiday) Jewish Books for Kids</b><br><b>A National Jewish Book Award 2020 Finalist for Middle Grade Fiction</b><br><b>A 2021 Golden Dome Book Award Selection<br><br>“Harrowing, engaging and utterly honest.” —Elizabeth Wein, <i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b><br><b>“A captivating chronicle of eight turbulent years.” —<i>The Wall Street Journal</i></b><br><br><i>From a beloved voice in children’s literature comes this landmark memoir of hope amid harrowing times and an engaging and unusual Holocaust story.</i><br><br>With backlist sales of over 2.3 million copies, Uri Shulevitz, one of Farrar, Straus and Giroux’s most acclaimed picture-book creators, details the eight-year odyssey of how he and his Jewish family escaped the terrors of the Nazis by fleeing Warsaw for the Soviet Union in <i>Chance</i>.<br><br>It was during those years, with threats at every turn, that the young Uri experienced his awakening as an artist, an experience that played a key role during this difficult time. By turns dreamlike and nightmarish, this heavily illustrated account of determination, courage, family loyalty, and the luck of coincidence is a true publishing event.</p>