Once (novel)
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Once is a 2005 children's novel by Australian author Morris Gleitzman. It is about a Jewish boy named Felix who lived in Poland and is on a quest to find his book-keeper parents after he sees Nazis burning the books from a Catholic orphanage in which had stayed at for 3 years and 8 months. He finds a girl named Zelda, unconscious in a burning house with her dead parents; he takes her with him and protects her from confronting her parents' death by telling her stories. Although Once is a work of fiction, Gleitzman was inspired by the story of Janusz Korczak, the events of World War II, and Hitler's attempt to exterminate the Jewish population of Europe.
Author | Morris Gleitzman |
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Series | Felix and Zelda |
Release number | 1 |
Publisher | Puffin Books |
Publication date | 2005 |
Pages | 160 |
ISBN | 9780143301950 |
OCLC | 76888577 |
823.914 | |
LC Class | PZ7.G4824 |
Followed by | Then (2009) |
Once was translated into German (Einmal) and was nominated for the 2010 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis; it won the 2011 Katholischer Kinder- und Jugendbuchpreis [de].
The sequels to the book are Then (2009),[1] Now (2010),[2] After (2012),[3] Soon (2015)[4] Maybe (2017),[5] and Always (2021).[6] In chronological order of Felix's life, the books are Once, Then, After, Soon, Maybe, Now, and Always.[3]