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.

King Matt the First (Vintage Originals)

Literature & Fiction

Janusz Korczak

Contemporary

Vintage Books USA

Matt is crowned king when his father, Stephen the Wise, passes away, but when Matt tries to reform his kingdom and help its children, he is dethroned and sent into exile

King Matt the First

Children's Books

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

The Warsaw Ghetto Memoirs of Janusz Korczak (English and Polish Edition)

University Press of America

These two works belong to that group of books written by one of this century's fiercest and most devoted child advocates. In the first, Korczak uses fiction to reveal the joys and sorrows of a child, a ten-year-old, juxtaposing them against the feelings of an adult as they both react to two days of adventure spent together.

When I Am Little Again and The Child's Right to Respect

Biographies & Memoirs

Text: English (translation) 
Original Language: Polish

Ghetto Diary / The Last Walk of Janusz Korczak

Aaron Zeitlin

Holocaust Library

This enchanting tale of a child who becomes king belongs to the tradition of Alice in Wonderland and Gulliver's Travels...

Little King Matty . . . and the Desert Island

Joanna Pinewood Enterprises Lt

König Hänschen I

Korol' Matiush Pervyi

Azbuka

Kak ljubit rebenka

AZBOOKA

King Matt The First (Chinese Edition)

Gold Wall Press

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