Please welcome Gina
Once
by Morris Gleitzman
A boy named Felix
has to escape from an orphanage in Poland to find his parents. He gets out
successfully but he does not know what is ahead of him.
My favourite part
of the story is when Felix finds the whole carrot in his soup and thinks it is
a sign that his parents are coming to fetch him from the orphanage. I liked
this bit because I liked his positive attitude.
Felix and Zelda
are the main characters in ‘Once’. Felix is a young Jewish boy, whose parents are
booksellers. Felix had been sent to an orphanage because the situation is
getting worse and worse for the Jewish people because of the war. Felix has not
seen his parents for 3 years and 8 months, so he decided to set off on a long dangerous
journey to find his parents. Felix found a little girl named Zelda along the
way.
I think this
story is quite touching. Once is
great for children to read for fun but also great for their education. It helps
them learn about what they would have experienced in World War II. I think Felix and Zelda were very lucky
because they survived when they jumped off the train unlike their poor friend
Chaya.
Anyone who likes Paul
Jennings’ books would certainly enjoy Once as they both have many twists and
turns within the story.
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