Island on Bird Street

Alex, the hero of this story, is hidden in the ruins of the house destroyed by the bombing of the house in the Warsaw ghetto almost from the very beginning of the war. This house is not much different from the desert island, but it is in it that Alex is waiting for his father to return. So long that Alex is almost ceasing to believe in his return. And all this time he gets food for himself completely alone, like Robinson Crusoe, gathering a house from the wreckage of ships. The rest of the world, Alex is watching through binoculars - there, behind the basement, people obey the cruel laws of the German occupation, but do not hide. Children go to school every morning ... And Alex is one, with him only his mouse snowball, the novel "Robinson Crusoe" and Nadezhda. Hope to see his father again.
Uri Orlev (born 1931) - Israeli prose writer, author of books for children and youth, translator, author of more than thirty books translated into 38 languages ​​of the world. In 1996, he was awarded the Prize. Hans Christian Andersen for his contribution to world children"s literature. For the book "Ostrovna Bird Street," became the laureate of the Yanush Korchak International Literary Prize (1990) He was born under the name of the hedgehog Henrik Orlovsky in Poland, during the Second World War, with the whole family, he was deported to the Warsaw ghetto, where he was from 1940 to 1943. After the murder of his mother, the Nazis was sent with his brother to the Bergen-Belzen camp, where he spent about two years. After the war, he lived in Palestine and Jerusalem.
Russian readers Uri Orlev is known as the author of the book "Run, Boy, Run!" And the adaptations of their books