« Un jour, je me suis évadé d'un orphelinat pour retrouver papa et maman. Un jour, j'ai sauvé une petite fille qui s'appelait Zelda d'une maison en feu. Un jour, je vivais dans une cave avec sept autres enfants, alors que je n'aurais pas dû. Un jour, j'ai fait rire un nazi avec une rage de dents. Un jour, j'ai fait mon premier voyage en train, mais je ne dirais pas que c'était formidable. Mon nom est Félix. Ceci est mon histoire. »
Depuis quelque temps, Thomas est sujet à un phénomène très embarrassant. De façon soudaine, ses tétons se mettent à le démanger violement. Le médecin de famille qu'il consulte diagnostique un excès de stress. Mais Thomas n'est pas convaincu par cette explication et il poursuit son enquête avec ses deux meilleurs amis Holly et Kevin, et découvre que ses tétons le grattent chaque fois qu'il entend un mensonge. Quelle poisse ! Son avenir s'assombrit encore lorsque Kevin trouve un article rapportant que Thomas appartient au groupe des « septiques », des enfants présentant une réaction physique au mensonge, et dont l'espérance de vie ne dépasse pas 12 ou 13 ans. Seule une française, Vera Poulet, semble s'en être tirée. Il faut que Thomas aille en France pour la rencontrer ! Pour payer le voyage, il participe au jeu télévisé, Menteur Menteur ! Qu'il remporte haut la main, non sans l'aide de son infaillible détecteur de mensonge...
Once by Morris Gleitzman is the story of a young Jewish boy who is determined to escape the orphanage he lives in to save his Jewish parents from the Nazis in the occupied Poland of the Second World War. Everybody deserves to have something good in their life. At least Once. Once I escaped from an orphanage to find Mum and Dad. Once I saved a girl called Zelda from a burning house. Once I made a Nazi with a toothache laugh. My name is Felix. This is my story. Once is the first in a series of children's novels about Felix, a Jewish orphan caught in the middle of the Holocaust, from Australian author Morris Gleitzman - author of Bumface and Boy Overboard . The next books in the series Then , Now and After are also available from Puffin.
L'histoire semble-t-il banale d'Oliver, dix ans, dont le rêve est d'avoir un chien. Mais voilà, la vie d'Oliver est loin d'être banale : ses parents, propriétaires d'une grande banque, sont immensément riches, et ne veulent pas d'un cabot sur leurs tapis d'orient. Alors lorsque son ancienne gouvernante kidnappe et menace d'exécuter le chien de ses rêves s'il ne récupère pas 11 000 dollars dans la semaine - la somme qu'elle aurait perdue sur les mauvais conseils de ses parents -, Oliver décide de relever le défi et de mettre en pratique ses modestes connaissances financières pour réparer cette injustice. Malheureusement, les choses deviennent bientôt incontrôlables... S'ensuit une aventure loufoque et tendre où se croiseront seize dromadaires, un trader de cour de récréation très mauvais en mathématiques, et des requins... de la finance.
In the beginning there was me and Mum and Dad and the twins. And talk about happy families, we were bountiful. But it came to pass that I started doing sins. And lo, that's when all our problems began...
Oliver's parents own a bank. This makes them very rich, very important and very busy. Oliver, on the other hand, is terrible at maths and aspires to nothing more than owning the puppy that he frequently visits at his local pet shop.
When a mysterious woman threatens to harm the puppy if Oliver can't remake her fortune (unfortunately, Oliver's parents seem to have misplaced her investment. Something to do with some stuff on the news) Oliver hatches a plan which will take him further than he ever imagined...
In the hysterically funny sequel to Toad Rage, Limpy is on a quest to find toad heaven. A place where cane toads won’t be blown up with bike pumps or bashed over the head with folding chairs. Limpy’s determined to find this place if it takes him the rest of his life, but his plans are waylaid when he’s kidnapped by some sinisterlooking humans and tossed into a bucket. Will Limpy be able to save cane toads? Will he be able to find toad heaven? First he has to get out of the bucket...From the Hardcover edition.
Warm, funny and quirky, Doubting Thomas is the brilliant new novel about best friends, surprising adventures and itchy nipples, from award-winning author Morris Gleitzman. Thomas has very itchy nipples. It's really embarrasing. It's the most embarrassing secret he's ever had. So the question is - why are his nipples so itchyoe Is it a rare and special gift or the worst thing to EVER happen to a boyoe Only one thing is certain. Thomas and his best friends are in for an adventure that will take them from the sunshine of Australia to the streets of Paris. 'Morris Gleitzman has a rare gift for writing very funny stories and wrapping very serious stories inside them' - Guardian 'A brilliantly funny writer' - Sunday Telegraph 'Readers can't get enough of him' - Independent 'A virtuoso demonstration of how you can make comedy out of the most unlikely subject' - Sunday Times
Morris Gleitzman grew up in England and went to live in Australia when he was sixteen. He worked as a frozen-chicken thawer, sugar-mill rolling-stock unhooker, fashion-industry trainee, department-store Santa, TV producer, newspaper columnist and screenwriter, until he began writing young fiction. His many books include Boy Overboard, Toad Rage, Bumface, which was shortlisted for the Guardian Award and the Carnegie Medal, and Two Weeks with the Queen, winner of the Children's Book Award.
Limpy’s family reckons humans don’t hate cane toads, but Limpy knows otherwise. He’s spotted the signs: the cross looks, the unkind comments, the way they squash cane toads with their cars. Limpy is desperate to save his species from ending up as pancakes. Somehow he must make humans see how fabulous cane toads really are. Risking everything, he sets off on a warttinglingly dangerous and daring journey to ... the Olympics?This is the epic story of a slightly squashed young cane toad’s quest for the truth.From the Hardcover edition.
