King Matt the First

Author(s): Janusz Korczak

Sci Fi/Fantasy

This moving fable follows the adventures of Matt who becomes king when just a child and decides to reform his country according to his own priorities. Ignoring his grown-up ministers, he decrees that children should be given chocolate every day and builds the best zoo in the world. He fights in battles, braves the jungle, and crosses the desert, but perhaps the most life-altering thing of all is that the lonely boy king finds true friends.
This timeless book shows us not only what children's literature can be, but what children can be.

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Janusz Korczak was born in 1878 and died in 1942. He was a Polish physician and educator who wrote over twenty books - his fiction was in his time as well known as Peter Pan, and his non-fiction works bore passionate messages of child advocacy. During World War II, the Jewish orphanage he directed was relocated to the Warsaw ghetto. Although Korczak's celebrity afforded him many chances to escape, he refused to abandon the children. He was killed at Treblinka along with the children. His works have not been forgotten, especially by teachers: there are Janusz Korczak societies in over a dozen countries.

General Fields

  • : 9780099488866
  • : Penguin Random House
  • : Penguin Books Ltd
  • : 0.25
  • : August 2005
  • : 2.4 Centimeters X 13.3 Centimeters X 19.9 Centimeters
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Janusz Korczak
  • : Paperback
  • : English; Polish
  • : [Fic]
  • : 352