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Morris Gleitzman’s children’s stories are among the most widely read and loved in Australia. Armed with a vivid imagination and a clear sense of his younger self, Gleitzman is known for his ability to make readers care about what happens to his characters. Explaining what he looks for in a story, he says, “I’m attracted to a story that’s about something very deep for a small character. Something that involves big emotions, big fears, which, to an adult, might not seem important.” He continues, “As adults, we sometimes make the mistake of assuming that, because children are physically small, their internal worlds are small, as well. And that, of course, isn’t the case.”
Author Morris Gleitzman returns to narrate a well-paced, heartfelt final adventure featuring Felix Salinger in the seventh installment of his series spanning the period between WWII and the present day. Wassim, a biracial 10-year-old living with his uncle in Eastern Europe, turns to Felix, a man his grandfather knew who is now in his 80s, for help in dealing with a group that... Read More
Few author-narrators are better than Morris Gleitzman, and he doesn't disappoint with this heartbreaking WWI novel. Sixteen-year-old Frank Ballantine persuades his father to join the war effort. Gleitzman perfectly presents the father-son relationship as they travel from Australia to Egypt. Following the custom of the time, they take their horses with them into battle. When his... Read More
When Matt, a 14-year-old Australian soccer prodigy, gets a chance to play in the English Premier League, he learns that being a star player may mean having to give up values he holds dear. Morris Gleitzman’s Australian accent enriches his portrayals of Matt and Bridie, his 10-year-old sister and manager, as they try to befriend the English players. Gleitzman brings out the... Read More
Morris Gleitzman's fourth story about Felix follows the now 13-year-old Jewish boy during the final months of WWII. As narrator, Gleitzman's voice is often a hoarse whisper, a characteristic that befits the voice of an adolescent who has spent the past several years in hiding. Gleitzman's timing is excellent. His pace quickens right along with Felix's pulse as the Nazis close... Read More
NOW is the third of the Felix stories (after ONCE and THEN). Surgeon Felix survived the Holocaust and now lives in Australia with his granddaughter, Zelda. Narrator Mary-Anne Fahey is outstanding in her portrayals of the elderly Felix and the young Zelda. Fahey underscores Zelda's exuberance and her very Aussie accent while Felix sounds more subdued and contemplative.... Read More
When her father is expelled from their cult-like church for arguing with the elders and is removed from their family home, Grace thinks she's to blame because the elders consider her to be disobedient and disrespectful. After talking it over with God, she sets out to find her father, planning to convince him to be meek and obedient so that he can be reunited with their family... Read More
Morris Gleitzman reads his sequel to ONCE (2005), sounding for all the world like a 10-year-old boy. He manages this by assuming an attitude that combines hopeful innocence with the hollow sound of a child who has seen too much for his years. Felix, a Jewish boy in WWII Poland, and 6-year-old Zelda, continue their harrowing escape from Nazi brutality. They find Genia, a woman... Read More
Gleitzman’s short stories bring together humor, current events, whimsy, and food for thought. Story topics run the gamut from babysitting for infant twins to a creative solution for global warming, a dad who’s new to text-messaging, and germs going on vacation. Gleitzman rises to the challenge of narrating his own work. He knows each character intimately and brings nuances of... Read More
Can body parts be lie detectors? Thomas discovers he is a doubter, one of the few children who truly can detect when people are telling lies. Using this talent, Thomas becomes a game show celebrity and the one who restores harmony in his own family. Gleitzman's intimacy with his characters comes across in the nuances of his narration. As Thomas, Gleitzman can garner sympathy as... Read More
Aristotle and his brother, Blob, are germs who are unexpectedly sent into the world from their nostril home when their nostril sneezes. In this story we learn much more than we want to about germ life. Author Gleitzman narrates his own story and skillfully portrays all of the gross thoughts and actions of the germ brothers and their companions. On another level, Gleitzman... Read More
Poor Angus is not only stuck with an unpleasant nickname, Bumface, he's also saddled with a younger brother and sister as his celebrity mother becomes even more busy. Also, his father is totally helpless. Author Gleitzman narrates with wit, but he also illuminates the unfairness of the burden placed on Angus. The vocally talented Gleitzman skillfully presents whispered... Read More
Mary-Ann Fahey, an Australian comedy writer/performer, has found the perfect expressive vehicle in the character of Rowena Batts, lead character in the third in a series by one of Australia's master humor writers. Rowena was born " with some bits missing from my throat." Nonetheless, she has a strong personality, which she expresses in emotive sign language, and a tendency to... Read More
Morris Gleitzman offers this modern fable with both humor and tenderness. Struggling with sibling rivalry, his brother Luke’s cancer, and getting attention from his parents, young Colin searches for answers in quirky places. Sent away to a distant aunt and uncle so his parents can take care of his brother, Colin proceeds to work on finding the best doctor in the world to save... Read More
ONCE is the story of children in the Holocaust, poignant and powerful without being frightening or graphic. With his gentle and utterly alive manner, Gleitzman reads the tale of Felix, a Jewish boy who runs away from the convent where his parents had him hidden and roams the countryside with an orphaned girl until they find their way to the cellar of a print shop in the Warsaw... Read More
Limpy the Australian cane toad embarks on a quest to find out why humans hate his kind and what he can do to change their minds. His journey takes him to the Olympics, where, after many mishaps, he discovers a solution. Bolinda will continue to impress American listeners with this title. Morris Gleitzman is an enthusiastic storyteller whose voice radiates a kindness that will... Read More
Gleitzman and Jennings create yet another twisted episodic adventure for preteens. Sprocket, suffering from amnesia, wakes to find he’s naked, hunted by a group of child commandos and a group of nasty, flabby-fleshed middle-aged nudist exercisers. Amy deals with growing suspicions that her father is having an affair and that he has an illegitimate love child, whom her mother... Read More
Bridget, the bright hope of criminal parents she's trying to keep out of prison, befriends Menzies, son of a government minister, when her family sends her to an exclusive boarding school. She joins his mission to free refugee children at a desert detention center. Bridget is the narrator of this realistic, timely Australian adventure about immigration policy, terrorists, and... Read More
Rowena is in the principal's office. The rest of the school is wiping raspberry goop off their faces, and Rowena admits she threw the jelly custard into the fan on purpose--although she doesn't know why. Rowena is mute. She uses sign language or written messages to communicate. Her mother is dead, her often embarrassing father is now married to her teacher, and she has anger... Read More
Morris Gleitzman is a natural as he reads his own story of Ginger, a young girl who is filled with well-justified anxiety concerning the authority figures in her life. Teachers, principals, parents, in fact almost everyone over four feet tall, seem bent on the destruction of the things that make Ginger feel good about herself. A bright girl with a remarkable vocabulary of... Read More
While she's up on the roof retrieving her mother's bra from the chimney, Pearl hopes she won't fall on her pet guinea pig and best friend, Winston. The intrepid Pearl decides that if she had a grandma, she wouldn't be in this situation. However, her warm, fuzzy ideal of a grandma gets a jolt when the real thing comes along. Young listeners will love this wacky, tender, wittily... Read More
"Gramps and I stared out of the kitchen window. The plague of frogs was still there." So begins Episode 3 in the adventures of Dawn and Rory, reluctant step-siblings who have already faced poisonous slugs and killer sheep and who now must fend off a giant cannibal frog-general and his kamikaze frog-soldiers. Stricken by an infection that feeds on anger, Dawn and Rory try to... Read More
Morris Gleitzman and Paul Jennings, two of Australia's most popular children's authors, combine their wit and imagination to produce Wicked, a six-part action adventure story featuring a couple of normal kids as tangled up in their own emotions as the creeper of the title. As this part of the adventure begins, Dawn cries out, "I was history. The longest root in the world was... Read More
Limpy the cane toad continues his persistent efforts to teach humans not to hate his species. Limpy keeps dead "rellies" (relatives) stacked up in his room, much to the chagrin of his mother, who would prefer a clean room. Embarking on a heroic expedition, Limpy hops (pun intended) planes from his home in Australia to the Amazon, in search of the ancient secret of keeping the... Read More
Rowena wants her new classmates to see that she isn't different from them, but her muteness, sign language, and volcanic temper keep her at a distance. Her adoring, but wacky and often wildly inappropriate, father keeps Rowena constantly embarrassed. Despite the grief of losing both her mother and best friend, Rowena is remarkably well adjusted as she tries to make friends and... Read More
In this final installation in the popular Wicked! series, Kate Hosking and Stig Wemyss portray Dawn and Rory, reluctant step-siblings who find themselves working together to save each other and their families from a mutant virus that is creating killer sheep, violent goats, and a slew of enormous slobberers. When it becomes clear that Rory and his father are dying from the... Read More
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