The Boy Who Didn't Want to Die: A Graphic Memoir
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Publishing Details
The Boy Who Didn't Want to Die: A Graphic Memoir
By (Author) PETER LANTOS
Illustrated by Stebleva Victoria
Scholastic Australia
Scholastic Inc
1st March 2025
Australia
Classifications
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction
Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Crime, mystery and thrillers
Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Historical
Childrens / Teenage general interest: History and the past
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Warfare, battles, armed forces
Childrens / Teenage social topics: War and conflict issues
Physical Properties
Paperback
144
Width 153mm, Height 229mm, Spine 9mm
Description
Peter, a boy of five, makes an extraordinary journey through wartorn Europe, travelling with his parents from a small Hungarian town, through Austria and on to Germany. Along the way, unforgettable images of adventure flash one after another: sleeping in a tent and then under the night sky, discovering a disused brick factory, catching butterflies in the meadows, before Peter realizes that the adventure is really a nightmare, as he watches bombs fall from the blue sky outside Vienna and starts lessons with his mother in Bergen-Belsen. Drawn against a background of terror, starvation, and his fathers and grandmothers deaths, this is a story of survival; of love between mother and son; and of enduring hope in the face of unspeakable hardship.
