ONCE I escaped from an orphanage to find Mum and Dad.
ONCE I saved a girl called Zelda from a burning house.
ONCE I made a Nazi with toothache laugh.
My name is Felix.
This is my story.
"Morris Gleitzman
Once"
Morris Gleitzman captures his readers with an intense blurb to begin his book.
Gleitzman's book, Once, follows the journey of Felix, a young Jewish storyteller, on his quest to find his mother and father.
The book is set in 1942 when Adolf Hitler has the Nazi's killing or enslaving all the Jews in Poland.
Felix is a young Jew who has been living in an orphanage for 3 year and 8 months. When the Nazi's come to the orphanage Felix decides it's time to find his parents and he sets off on a long and terrible journey.
Felix's journey finds him meeting many different people, learning more and more about the Nazi's, hiding from the Nazi's, looking after a girl called Zelda and wittnessing many horrible happenings.
Everybody deserves to have something good in their life.
At least once.
"Morris Gleitzman
Once"
