Can you identify one incident that changed your entire view on everyone around you? That set your world upside down forever? Felix had several of those. ‘Once’ is a novel of historical fiction by Morris Gleitzman, set in the midst of World War 2. It tells the story of Felix Saint Stanistaus a young Jewish boy who was placed in an orphanage by his parents until they sorted out their “troubles” as Jewish booksellers. One night he gets a whole carrot in his soup, which he knows his parents sent. But when his parents fail to arrive he goes on a quest to find them. What Felix begins to see brings an end to his innocence in a very brutal way. He begins to see and understand things no 10 year old should ever be exposed to. Felix is faced with many
