Imprint:
London : Scholastic, 2025.
Collation:
144 pages : chiefly illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour) ; 23 cm
Summary:
'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.
ISBN:
9780702334467 (pbk)
Dewey Class:
940.5318092
J940.531
Bookmark Link:
https://rochdale.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/MASK/BIBENQ?BRN=3909807
