The power a book can have ...

"I was four years old when World War II broke out. We spent the war years in Russia. There I experienced severe hunger. One day my mom managed to find and give me my first book—it was Tyl Ulenspiegel by Charles de Coster in Russian. As I got lost in the book, I forgot the hunger and misery of the war. That is how I discovered the power a book can have on a kid.”

- Uri Shulevitz