Morris Gleitzman Books

That's the good thing with stories. There's always a chance they can come true.Felix is lucky. Unlike the other children in the orphanage, he's certain his parents will come back for him one day. And whatever the Nazis do and however many books they burn, Felix's imagination provides him and his companions with an endless supply of stories - stories that protect them when they're on the run, shield them from the violent madness all around, give them hope when all seems lost, and one day may even save Felix's life.Once & Then is a spellbinding story of hope and imagination in the most terrible circumstances.However my story turns out, I'll never forget how lucky I am.

In Then - Morris Gleitzman's heartbreaking children's novel set during the Nazi occupation of Poland during the Second World War - Jewish orphan Felix and his best friend Zelda have been captured and are on the way to a concentration camp, unless they manage to escape ... A little hope goes a long way. I had a plan for me and Zelda. Pretend to be someone else. Find new parents, be safe forever. Then the Nazis came. My name is Felix. This is my story.

The Second World War has officially ended, but the streets are still a battleground - for food, for shelter, for protection . . . Felix is in hiding to stay safe, but finds he has been left holding the baby - literally. An orphaned infant has been left in his care and he will do everything he can to protect the child, in the way a few incredible people did for him during the Holocaust. This powerfully moving addition to Morris Gleitzman's bestselling series about Felix and Zelda takes place in 1945, following the story told in After. This intensely affecting story will move readers of all ages. It will be welcomed by the many Holocaust educators who use Once, Now, Then and After to teach upper primary and lower secondary children and embraced by any reader who loves passionate, moving and brilliant stories.

After is the fourth shocking, funny and heartbreaking book in Morris Gleitzman's Second World War series. After The Nazis took my parents I was scared After They killed my best friend I was angry After They ruined my thirteenth birthday I was determined to get to the forest, to join forces with Gabriek and Yuli, to be a family, to defeat the Nazis after all 'Haunting . . . dangerous and desperate, but also full of courage and hope' - Guardian 'You will laugh . . . prepare for shock and tears' - Sunday Times After is the fourth in a series of children's novels about Felix, a Jewish orphan caught in the middle of the Holocaust, from Australian author Morris Gleitzman - author of Bumface and Two Weeks with the Queen. The other books in the series, Once, Then and Now are also available from Puffin.

Limpy has a dream. A dream in which cane toads and humans live happily together. Surely this time Limpy will be able to show humans how nice cane toads can be? After all, it is Christmas. And isn't Christmas a time of peace and goodwill to all men? And cane toads?

1946. Europe is in ruins. Millions dream of finding happiness somewhere else, and 14 year-old Felix is one of them. When he's offered a journey to somewhere far away, he seizes the opportunity. So does someone very dear to him, even though she wasn't actually invited. They have high hopes for their new land. But before Felix and Anya can embrace the love and friendship of their new world, they must confront the murderous urge for revenge still alive in the old. Felix knows he hasn't faced anything like this before. He may not survive, but he's hoping he will. Maybe.

My name is Felix. This is my story. Felix has been living in an orphanage for three years and eight months when the men in armbands arrive to burn the books. Going on the run in search of his parents, Felix soon learns that Poland in 1942 is not a safe place for Jewish boys. But can his gift for storytelling keep him one step ahead of the Nazis and help him find his parents? After all, everybody deserves to have something good in their life at least once. 'Morris Gleitzman has a rare gift for writing very funny stories and an even rarer gift of wrapping very serious stories inside them' - Guardian Once is the first in a series of novels about Felix and his family. The sequels - Then, After, Soon, Maybe and Now - are also available from Puffin.

Two hilarious but heartwarming stories in one book, from one of Australia's bestselling authors, and featuring a very unusual and outspoken heroine . . .

Limpy sets off in search of a nature reserve for him and his friends and family to stay. Accompanied by Goliath he embarks on an epic adventure, but nothing goes quite according to plan.

In this sequel to Romantic Consciousness, John Beer discusses further questionings of human consciousness: both the degree to which Dickens's conscious dramatizing differs from the subconscious workings of his psyche and the exploration of subliminal consciousness by 19th century psychical researchers. Discussions of questions of Being by thinkers such as Heidegger, Sartre and Havel are accompanied by the assertion that creative writers such as Woolf and Lawrence, followed by Hughes and Plath, showed a deeper debt than philosophical contemporaries to their Romantic predecessors.

"Once I didn't know about my grandfather Felix's scary childhood. Then I found out what the Nazis did to his best friend Zelda. Now I understand why Felix does the things he does. At least he's got me. My name is Zelda too. This is our story"--Back cover. Suggested audience: primary, intermediate, junior secondary

Keynote: The much-anticipated final journey in the story of Felix, hero of Morris Gleitzman's multi-award-winning Once, Then, After, Soon, Maybe and Now. It's fifteen years since readers were first introduced to Felix in Once and across six celebrated books, our brave young hero has survived many unforgettable and emotional journeys. Now comes the seventh and final part of Felix's story, bringing to a powerful climax a series that countless young readers around the world will remember - Always.

Set against the backdrop of an ambitious quest for football glory, Jamal and Bibi navigate a perilous journey filled with dangers such as landmines, pirates, storms, and assassins. Their determination to lead Australia to victory in the next World Cup is tested as they confront these challenges, blending adventure with the passion for the sport.

Colin Mudford is on a quest. His brother Luke has cancer and the doctors in Australia don't seem to be able to cure him. Sent to London to stay with relatives, Colin is desperate to do something to help Luke. He wants to find the best the doctor in the world. Where better to start than by going to the top?

Pearl's life is decidedly wonky. Her dad's run off, her mum doesn't love her, her cousin Mitch is mad and her guinea pig's in the freezer. The only thing she can think of to straighten things out is to have a grandmother. Then she inherits Gran, and things are never quite the same again.

An Australian schoolgirl who is unable to speak is embarrassed by her father's outlandish dress and behavior.

What do you do when your mum, your dad and sixteen camels are in trouble and only you can save them? The sometimes sad but mostly funny story of a boy, a girl, a dog and four trillion dollars.

From two of Australia's wickedest authors comes this collection of six shocking children's stories. They are: "The Slobberers", "Battering Rams", "Croaked", "Dead Ringers", "The Creeper" and "Till Death Us Do Part".

Wilton has no tendrils, no friends and no idea why he's so different to all the other microbes in his stretch of the intestine. But now he's had enough. He's going where no microbe has gone before. To the end of the known world, where the sludge gods dwell. To discover if he truly is a microbe. Or maybe a worm? Or possibly just a noodle that can talk? After an epic journey, Wilton and his new friend Algy find their way back home, and discover that the true key to saving each other, their world and their 'janet' lies not with the sludge gods, but with themselves.

Now available in paperback--the novel that introduces a cane toad named Limpy, who is desperate to save his species from ending up as pancakes on the roadways. Somehow he must make humans see how fabulous cane toads really are.

It's not easy being part of Ginger's family when you re allergic to cats - three of them love cats and five of them are cats. Ginger tries to be good, but it's not easy when your new best friend is a fierce looking stray dog. It gets even harder when the school principal starts trying to kill your best friend. But Ginger manages to save the dog and expose Mr Napier for the phoney he is."

11 year-old Mitch lives in a very remote Australian town. Desperate to win friends and earn his family the gratitude of the hostile locals, he decides to become a world champion diver. Trouble is, there's no water big enough to dive into for 600 miles... A new, bitter-sweet and brilliantly funny novel from an internationally acclaimed children's writer.

The kitchen was a mess. Packets and jars had been flung around. Half the stuff in the fridge was on the floor. There was a trail of flour running through the passage. For a second Jake thought one of the magazine people must have had an urge to make a cake and decided to do it in their room. Or was someone else in the house? Jake's an only kid. He's the only kid in his family. He's the only kid on his island. Or that's what he thinks . . .

Limpy is fed up of seeing his relatives run over and when he hears of a place in the Amazon, where human and toad live together in harmony, he resolves to find this place for himself and to take his cousin Goliath with him. The two toads make their bumpy way to the Amazonian jungle. But the jungle is not the Utopia that Limpy had imagined.

Manchmal ist die mutigste Tat von allen, sich der Vergangenheit zu stellen ... Einmal war Felix ein kleiner Junge in Polen, der sich vor den Nazis verstecken musste. Jetzt ist er Großvater und lebt seit vielen Jahren in Australien. Kurz vor seinem 80. Geburtstag zieht seine Enkelin Zelda zu ihm, da ihre Eltern ein Hilfsprojekt in Afrika begleiten. Großvater und Enkelin verstehen sich gut, aber an der neuen Schule hat Zelda Probleme. Und auch Felix fällt die Veränderung nicht ganz leicht. Denn Zelda stellt viele Fragen und so werden die schmerzlichen Erinnerungen seiner Kindheit plötzlich wieder sehr lebendig. Doch als ein gefährliches Buschfeuer ausbricht, müssen Felix und Zelda ihre Ängste und die Vergangenheit hinter sich lassen. Denn jetzt geht es um ihre Zukunft – und ums Überleben. --- Von Felix‘ trauriger Kindheit erzählen die Bände „Einmal“ (Katholischer Kinder- und Jugendbuchpreis 2011) und „Dann“ – schmerzlich, berührend, hoffnungsvoll.

Když mi nacisté vzali rodiče, byl jsem vyděšený. Když zabili mou kamarádku, byl jsem vzteky bez sebe. Když jsem se přidal k partyzánům, abych jim pomohl porazit nacisty, naplnila mě naděje. Brzy, říkal jsem, budeme v bezpečí. Mýlil jsem se. Brzy vypráví o dalších osudech židovského sirotka Felixe a časově navazuje na předešlé díly Kdysi, Potom a Když. Život v poválečném, osvobozeném Polsku nebyl šťastný ani bezpečný, všude vládl chaos, země i lidé byli zbědovaní, morální hodnoty v troskách. Felix čelí velkému zklamání, jeho naděje i optimismus pohasínají a střídá je vystřízlivění.

Colinovi je dvanáct a láká ho všechno, co se dá vědecky prozkoumat a objasnit. Také má mladšího bratra Luka a má ho moc rád, i když ho pěkně štve, jak mu rodiče pořád nadržují. Jednoho dne - zrovna o Vánocích - postihne Luka uprostřed hraní podivná nevolnost. Výsledek vyšetření je bohužel nepříznivý. Colin, kterého rodiče pošlou na nějaký čas k příbuzným do Londýna, ale nehodlá trpně čekat. Píše kvůli Lukovi i samotné královně a dokonce se pokusí k ní vloupat, jen aby pro brášku získal toho nejlepšího doktora na světě. Při shánění pomoci se také seznámí s mladíkem Tedem, který denně navštěvuje svěho nevyléčitelně nemocného přítele. A právě toto setkání mu otevře oči - pochopí, že jeho místo je vedle Luka, a vymůže si návrat domů, do Sydney. Kniha o smíření se s nevyléčitelnou nemocí člena rodiny, o ujasnění vztahu mezi sourozenci a nalezení místa v rodině, o pochopení, že někdy ani snaha a pevná vůle nemůže nic změnit.