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King Matt the First


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No. of pages 330

Published: 2004

Great for age 7-10 years

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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 builds the best zoo in the world and decrees that children should be given chocolate every day. 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.King Matt the First was written by Janusz Korczak, a Polish orphanage director who died in Treblinka after refusing to abandon the children he cared for. [This book description comes from a different edition of this title. Please report any inaccuracies].

 

 

This book has been graded for interest at 10-13 years.

There are 330 pages in this book. This book was published in 2004 by Algonquin Books .

Esme Raji Codell is the author of the bestselling Educating Esme , a memoir about her first year teaching in Chicago, as well as several books for children, including Sahara Special and Seed by Seed . You can visit her at PlanetEsme. Blogspot. com.