Five-star review of Now by
Morris Gleitzman
Felix’s eleven-year-old
granddaughter (also named Zelda) tells the story of the time her doctor parents
left her with him (now 80-years-old) in Australia while they worked for Médecins sans
Frontières in Africa. There are bullies and a dog and
brush fires involved, but it’s Zelda’s voice, the assumptions she makes – so
like her grandfather did when he was ten – and her self-doubts that make this
book at least as good as Once and Then. A quick read and the kind
of thin book to take on vacation. You don’t have to have read the first two
books, as Gleitzman’s references to what happened in them are very clear. There
are three more books in the series to intersperse with much longer books. Not
just for middle-graders.
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