This is Israel A Children's Classic

When I did This is Israel, people laughed at me for hours the way I painted the signs. They couldn't understand how I did them left to right when they both read and write their letters right to left! - Miroslav Sasek in Books are by people. : M. Sasek takes a bright and breezy trip through Israel. It is a lovely, colourful book with plenty of typical Sasek illustrations. This was the first This is book to be devoted to a a whole country, albeit a small one. It is also one of the few Sasek books to be made into a film

Author and illustrator M. Sasek (1916–1980) was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. He is best remembered for his classic stories on the great cities of the world.