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Deeply moving<\/span>\u00a0– Booktrust<\/span><\/p>\n

A gripping story of love, courage and triumph over evil\u00a0<\/span>– The Bookseller<\/span><\/p>\n

Can, and should, be read by an audience of any age. –\u00a0<\/span>Jewish News<\/span><\/p>\n

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKSELLER CHILDREN’S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024<\/span><\/p>\n

A story of survival, of love between mother and son and of enduring hope in the face of unspeakable hardship. An important read.<\/span><\/h3>\n

The Boy Who Didn’t Want to Die<\/span>\u00a0describes an extraordinary journey, made by Peter, a boy of five, through war-torn Europe in 1944 and 1945.<\/p>\n

Peter and his parents set out from a small Hungarian town, travelling through Austria and then Germany together.<\/p>\n

Along the way, unforgettable images of adventure flash one after another: sleeping in a tent and then under the sky, discovering a disused brick factory, catching butterflies in the meadows – and as Peter realises that this adventure is really a nightmare – watching bombs falling from the blue sky outside Vienna, learning maths from his mother in Belsen.<\/p>\n

All this is drawn against a background of terror, starvation, infection and, inevitably, death, before Peter and his mother can return home.<\/p>\n