Meir Shalev
1) Lola
Author
Publisher
Entrelibros
Pub. Date
2007
Language
Español
Description
Lola is a louse who is not happy living in a boy's head. She visits different members of a school community before touring the world, jumping from head to head. A story that shows children how easily lice can spread.
Author
Publisher
Schocken Books
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
During the 1948 War of Independence--a time when pigeons are still used to deliver battlefield messages--a gifted young pigeon handler is mortally wounded. In the moments before his death, he dispatches one last pigeon, carrying his extraordinary gift to the girl he has loved since adolescence. Intertwined with this story is the contemporary tale of Yair Mendelsohn, who has his own legacy from the 1948 war. Yair is a tour guide specializing in bird-watching...
Author
Publisher
Schocken Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The author joyfully remembers those days he spent as a boy with his grandparents in the bucolic Jezreel Valley, and in this quirky tribute commemorates the spirit of an exacting, tireless character who was "the purified essence of us all, for better and worse."