Once

Morris Gleitzman's novel Once tells the tale of a young Jewish child in occupied Poland during World War II who is desperate to escape the orphanage where he is kept in order to protect his Jewish parents from the Nazis.

All individuals are entitled to positive experiences in their lives. minimum of once.

I once managed to get out of an orphanage and locate my parents.

I once pulled Zelda, a girl, out of a burning home.

I once made a toothache-weary Nazi chuckle.

I go by Felix. This is my narrative.

Once is the first book in a trilogy of children's books by Australian novelist Morris Gleitzman, who also wrote Bumface and Boy Overboard, about Felix, a Jewish orphan caught up in the heart of the Holocaust. Puffin also has the subsequent novels in the Then, Now, and After series.