He was born in England in 1953 and emigrated to Australia in 1969 so he could escape from school and become a Very Famous Writer.īefore realising that dream, he had a colourful career as paperboy, bottle-shop shelf-stacker, department store Santa Claus, frozen chicken defroster, fashion-design assistant and sugar-mill employee. His brilliantly comic style has endeared him to children and adults alike, and he is now one of Australia's most successful authors, both internationally and at home. Morris began his writing career as a screenwriter, and wrote his first children's novel in 1985.
This pack contains mature themes more suitable for older readers.This pack contains 5 paperbacks: Once, Then, Now, After, Soon. * A war story which spans from the Holocaust to the present day * Captures a young boy's hope and resilience in the face of horror * One of the most touching and heartbreaking series you will ever read * Morris Gleitzman is one of Australia's biggest children's authors. Which makes this a particularly moving and unusual look at the war, seen through Felix's trusting eyes. He's basically a walking ray of sunshine, and even a terrible war can't extinguish that. This World War Two saga is the story of Felix: a kid who never loses faith in goodness. Except, hang on - when a master storyteller like Morris Gleitzman gets involved, anything can happen. Or making a story about the Holocaust sweet and funny.
Or staying hopeful when your entire family is murdered. Like making a Nazi who wants to kill you (and has toothache) laugh.
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