Full name: A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw

Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer Year: 1963 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Award winners, History, Non Fiction, Memoirs Culture: Poland Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780374416966 0374416966

An ALA Notable Book. "Singer's memories of his youth in Poland make a powerful, brilliant children's book. The author lays out a panorama of Jewish life in the city-- the rabbis in black velvet and gabardine, the shopkeepers, the street urchins and schoolboys, the poverty, the confusion, the excitement of the prewar time. But even more, the author reveals himself; and the torments and mysteries that plagued him as a child will make his stories fascinating to other children....Reflecting a bygone world, the photographs add a further note of realism and power." ―The Horn Book A Day of Pleasure is the winner of the 1970 National Book Award for Children's Books. Similar books: In My Father's Court by Isaac Bashevis Singer More Stories from My Father's Court by Isaac Bashevis Singer Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand Wild Swans by Jung Chang Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz When a Crocodile Eats the Sun by Peter Godwin My Father's Paradise by Ariel Sabar Frederick Douglass by David W. Blight Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit by Lucette Lagnado The Return by Hisham Matar Colored People by Henry Louis Gates Jr. The Peabody Sisters by Megan Marshall Eden's Outcasts by John Matteson Waiting for Snow in Havana by Carlos Eire Brother to a Dragonfly by Will D. Campbell An American Requiem by James Carroll Abigail Adams by Woody Holton