For three years and eight months, Felix has lived in a convent orphanage high in the mountains in Poland. But Felix is different from the other orphans. He is convinced his parents are still alive and will come back to get him. When a group of Nazi soldiers come and burn the nuns' books, Felix is terrified that his Jewish, bookseller parents will also be in danger. After escaping from the orphanage, Felix embarks on a long and dangerous journey through Nazi occupied Poland, befriending a little orphan girl called Zelda and a kindly dentist, Barney, who hides and cares for Jewish children. But when the Nazis discover them, Barney makes the ultimate sacrifice for the children.
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 succesful children's books including Two Weeks with the Queen, Bumface, Boy Overboard and Girl Underground.
莫里斯·葛雷兹曼(Morris Gleitzman)生于1953年1月9号,是澳大利亚大名鼎鼎的作家。在成为国际著名的儿童作家之前做过各种工作,包括为一家百货公司扮演圣诞老人,送报纸,解冻肉品等。他曾经与澳大利亚另一位儿童书作者保罗·詹宁斯(Paul Jennings)合著过一系列儿童作品。葛雷兹曼还将他发表在《年代》(The Age)和《悉尼晨锋报》(The Sydney Morning Herald)专栏上的关于如何提升成人指导能力的作品集结成册,以飨读者。在19世纪70年代的时候,他还为电视节目《诺曼·盖森表演秀》(Norman Gunston Show)撰写剧本。从此,他那令人捧腹的获奖作品不断地在英国、美国、德国、意大利、日本、法国和西班牙发行。莫里斯·葛雷兹曼凭借多本名作,包括《无赖》(Bumface),《无病呻吟》(Misery Guts)和《与女王相处得两礼拜》(Two Weeks with the Queen)等跻身全球知名作家之列。2009年8月1日,他最近的新作《优雅》(Grace)业已在澳大利亚上市。《癞蛤蟆》系列(Toad Series)是莫里斯·葛雷兹曼最受欢迎的著作。
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