The boy who didn't want to die : a graphic memoir
Lantos, Peter L., 1939-2025
Book
Peter, a boy of five, makes an extraordinary journey through war-torn 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 father's and grandmother's deaths, this is a story of survival; of love between mother and son; and of enduring hope in the face of unspeakable hardship.
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, illustrator
Imprint:
Gosford, NSW : Scholastic Australia, 2025.©2025
Collation:
144 pages : chiefly illustrations (some colour), maps ; 23 cm
Audience:
Ages 8+. Scholastic Australia.
ISBN:
9781761646287 (paperback)
Dewey class:
741.5942
Language:
English
Added title:
Subject:
Lantos, Peter L., 1939- -- Comic books, strips, etcBergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) -- Comic books, strips, etcWorld War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- Comic books, strips, etcWorld War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Hungarian -- Comic books, strips, etcWorld War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Hungary -- Comic books, strips, etcAutobiographical comicsGraphic novels
BRN:
495668