The boy who didn't want to die : a graphic memoir
Lantos, Peter L., 1939-2025
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'The Boy Who Didn't Want to Die' describes an extraordinary journey, made by Peter, a boy of five, through war-torn Europe in 1944 and 1945. Peter and his parents set out from a small Hungarian town, travelling through Austria and then Germany together. 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. All this is drawn against a background of terror, starvation, infection and, inevitably, death, before Peter and his mother can return home.
Main title:
The boy who didn't want to die : a graphic memoir / Peter Lantos ; illustrated by Victoria Stebleva.
Author:
Lantos, Peter L., 1939-, authorStebleva, Victoria, artist
Imprint:
London : Scholastic, 2025.
Collation:
144 pages : chiefly illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour) ; 23 cm
Audience:
Juvenile.
ISBN:
9780702334467 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
940.531809C940.5318J940.531809 LANC B LAN
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
3311917
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