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Morris Gleitzman

5 stars across 93 books

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.

Once

23rd February 2006

Once

Once by Morris Gleitzman is the story of a young Jewish boy who is determined to escape the orphanage he lives in ... More

(9 reviews)

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Soon

6th August 2015

Soon

Soon is the latest powerfully moving addition to Morris Gleitzman's bestselling Second World War series about Feli... More

(5 reviews)

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Then

1st January 2009

Then

In Then - Morris Gleitzman's heartbreaking children's novel set during the Nazi occupation of Poland during the Se... More

(3 reviews)

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After

2nd August 2012

After

After is the fourth shocking, funny and heartbreaking book in Morris Gleitzman's Second World War series. Aft... More

(2 reviews)

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Two Weeks with the Queen

4th March 1999

Two Weeks with the Queen

'I need to see the Queen about my sick brother.' Colin Mudford is on a quest. His brother Luke has cancer and... More

(1 review)

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Too Small To Fail

4th August 2011

Too Small To Fail

1 boy. 1 girl. 1 camel. Squillions of dollars. A plan that can't fail. Or can it? Oliver's pa... More

(1 review)

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Wicked!

5th March 2002

Wicked!

(1 review)

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Maybe

21st September 2017

Maybe

A powerfully moving addition to Morris Gleitzman's bestselling series about Felix and Zelda which takes place in 1945, ... More

(1 review)

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Toad Surprise

8th October 2009

Toad Surprise

A cane toad's hilarious quest to discover the true meaning of Christmas! Limpy has a dream. A dream in which cane t... More

(0 reviews)

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Boy Overboard

27th June 2002

Boy Overboard

(0 reviews)

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Maybe

21st September 2017

(1 review)

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Blabber Mouth & Sticky Beak

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14th May 2020

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Once

by G

It is the Holocaust. Felix is a book loving Jewish boy, who escapes from an orphanage in Poland. He then finds a girl, whose parents had died in a fir...
Once

by Happypanda

This book is a heart-wrenching story set in the Second World War about a Jewish boy called Felix. His parents have left him in an orphanage, telling...
Once

by FelixLowe

A Holocaust story, beautifully told. Humanity at its most innocent and kind and hopeful against a backdrop of humanity at its worst. A story as releva...