Now
Author(s): Morris Gleitzman
"Now" is the third shocking, funny and heartbreaking book in Morris Gleitzman's "Second World War" series. Sometimes facing the past is the bravest act of all...Once I didn't know about my grandfather Felix's scary childhood. Then I found out what the Nazis did to his best friend Zelda. Now I understand why Felix does the things he does. At least he's got me. My name is Zelda too. This is our story. Now is the third in a series of children's novels about Felix, a Jewish orphan caught in the middle of the Holocaust, from Australian author Morris Gleitzman - author of "Bumface" and "Two Weeks with the Queen". The other books in the series, "Once, Then and After" are also available from Puffin.
Product Information
Shortlisted for Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2010.
One of the reasons this humane and carefully crafted book is so readable is that the author celebrates ordinariness and childishness even as he chronicles terrible cruelty. But prepare for shock and tears -- Nicolette Jones (On Then, Children's Book Of The Week) Sunday Times Haunting ... dangerous and desperate, but also full of courage and hope Guardian on Once
Morris Gleitzman was born in Lincolnshire and moved to Australia in his teens. He worked as a paperboy, a shelf-stacker, a frozen chicken de-froster, an assistant to a fashion designer and more, before taking a degree in Professional Writing at Canberra College and becoming a writer. He has written for TV, stage, newspapers and magazines but is best known for his hugely successful children's books including Two Weeks with the Queen, Bumface, Once and Then.
General Fields
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- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : Puffin Books
- : 0.122
- : 05 May 2010
- : 198mm X 129mm X 11mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Morris Gleitzman
- : Paperback
- : en
- : 176
