The Boy Who Didn't Want to Die

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<p><strong>"<em>Deeply moving</em>" - Booktrust</strong></p><p><strong><em>"A gripping story of love, courage and triumph over evil" </em>- The Bookseller</strong></p><p><strong><em>"Can, and should, be read by an audience of any age." - </em>Jewish News</strong></p><p><strong>WINNER: THE UK LITERACY ASSOCIATION BOOK AWARDS 2024: INFORMATION BOOK</strong></p> SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKSELLER CHILDREN'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 <strong>A story of survival, of love between mother and son and of enduring hope in the face of unspeakable hardship. An important read.</strong><p><em>The Boy Who Didn't Want to Die</em> describes an extraordinary journey, made by Peter, a boy of five, through war-torn Europe in 1944 and 1945.</p><p>Peter and his parents set out from a small Hungarian town, travelling through Austria and then Germany together.</p><p>Along the way, unforgettable images of adventure flash one after another: sleeping in a tent and then under the sky, discovering a disused brick factory, catching butterflies in the meadows - and as Peter realises that this adventure is really a nightmare - watching bombs falling from the blue sky outside Vienna, learning maths from his mother in Belsen.</p><p>All this is drawn against a background of terror, starvation, infection and, inevitably, death, before Peter and his mother can return home.</p><ul><li><strong>Author Professor Peter Lantos is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and in his previous life was an internationally renowned clinical neuroscientist. His memoir, <em>Parallel Lines</em> (Arcadia Books, 2006) was translated into Hungarian, German and Italian. <em>Closed Horizon</em> (Arcadia, 2012) was his first novel.</strong></li><li><strong>Peter was awarded the British Empire Medal in 2020 for 'services to Holocaust education and awareness' </strong></li><li><strong>He is one of the last of the generation of survivors and this - his first book for children - will serve as a

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780702323089

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

198 x 128 x 17 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Verlag / Hersteller

Scholastic Ltd.