{"product_id":"9780702334467","title":"The Boy Who Didn't Want to Die: A Graphic Memoir","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Lantos, Peter \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eReading age: from c 8 years\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 2 January 2025 by Scholastic in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 144 pages\u003cbr\u003e229 x 153 x 10 | 352g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Deeply moving” - Booktrust\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A gripping story of love, courage and triumph\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eover evil” - The Bookseller\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Can, and should, be read by an audience of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eany age.” - Jewish News\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA story of survival, of love between mother and son and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof enduring hope in the face of unspeakable hardship. An important\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eread. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Boy Who Didn't Want to Die describes an extraordinary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ejourney, made by Peter, a boy of five, through\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewar-torn Europe in 1944 and 1945.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter and his parents set out from a small Hungarian town, travelling\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethrough Austria and then Germany together. Along the way,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eunforgettable images of adventure flash one after another: sleeping\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein a tent and then under the sky, discovering a disused brick\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efactory, catching butterflies in the meadows - and as Peter realises\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethat this adventure is really a nightmare -\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewatching bombs falling from the blue sky outside Vienna, learning\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emaths from his mother in Belsen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll this is drawn against a background of terror, starvation,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einfection and, inevitably, death, before Peter and his mother can\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ereturn home. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor Professor Peter Lantos is a Fellow of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe Academy of Medical Sciences and in his previous life was an\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einternationally renowned clinical neuroscientist. His memoir, Parallel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLines (Arcadia Books, 2006) was translated\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einto Hungarian, German and Italian. Closed Horizon (Arcadia,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2012) was his first novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter was awarded the British Empire Medal in 2020 for\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘services to Holocaust education and awareness’.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e He is one of the last of the generation of survivors and this\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e– his first book for children – will serve as a testimony\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto his experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter lives in London.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMORE REVIEWS OF THE BOY WHO DIDN'T WANT TO DIE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'the book [is] absolutely compelling, partly because it is\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ea true story of extraordinary resilience and survival in unimaginable\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecircumstances, but also because Lantos' stark recollections\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emake very powerful reading.' Gaby Wine, The Jewish\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChronicle\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Guisborough Bookshop Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49602419229008,"sku":"9780702334467","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0860\/4988\/2448\/files\/9780702334467.jpg?v=1735915699","url":"https:\/\/guisboroughbookshop.co.uk\/products\/9780702334467","provider":"guisboroughbookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}