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Once (Morris Gleitzman novel)
''Once'' is a 2005 children's novel by Australian author Morris Gleitzman. It is about a Jewish boy named Felix, who lived in Poland, and is on a quest to find his book-keeper parents after he sees Nazis burning the books from a Catholic orphanage library in which he stays. He finds a girl called Zelda in a house with her dead parents - he takes her with him and protects her from confronting her parents' death by telling her stories. Although ''Once'' is a work of fiction, Gleitzman was inspired by the story of Janusz Korczak, the events of World War II, and Hitler's attempt to exterminate the Jewish population of Europe. The sequel to the book is called ''Then''.
''Once'' was translated into German (') and was nominated for the 2010 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis; it won the 2011 .
==Development==
Although ''Once'' is a work of fiction, Gleitzman was inspired by the story of Janusz Korczak, the events of World War II, and Hitler's attempt to exterminate the Jewish population of Europe. As research for the novel, Gleitzman read several books about and by young people in the Holocaust, including ''The King of Children'' by Betty Jean Lifton (a biography of Janusz Korczak), ''Salvaged Pages: Young Writers' Diaries of The Holocaust'', edited by Alexander Zapruder, ''The Hidden Children'' by Jane Marks, ''Words to Outlive Us: Eyewitness Accounts From the Warsaw Ghetto'', edited by Michał Grynberg, ''Witness: Voices From The Holocaust'', edited by Joshua M. Greene and Shiva Kumar, ''A Childhood'' by Jona Oberski, ''Maus'' by Art Spiegelman, ''The Diary of a Young Girl'' by Anne Frank, ''Born Guilty'' by Peter Sichrovsky, ''The Hidden Children'' by Howard Greenfeld, ''Children of the Ghetto'' by Sheva Glas-Wiener, ''Konin: A Quest'' by Theo Richmond, ''The Boys'' by Martin Gilbert, ''Flares of Memory: Stories of Childhood During The Holocaust'', edited by Anita Brostoff with Sheila Chamovitz, ''Yiddishland'' by Gerard Silvain and Henri Minczeles, ''Children With a Star'' by Debórah Dwork, and ''Ghetto Diary'' by Janusz Korczak.〔http://www.morrisgleitzman.com/once/〕
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