Morris gleitzman biography facts record
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Morris Gleitzman - Now
Now, at last. It’s arrived. I can see it on the post office shelf.
When I told my long-suffering but always supportive publisher that I was planning to write a new Felix book, she was pleased. When I told her I was going to leap ahead seventy years and have the story start on Felix’s eightieth birthday, her expression didn’t change and she didn’t say anything, but her eyes narrowed very slightly.
I had an idea what she was thinking. Something like, oh no, he’s finally lost it. He thinks he can replace a ten year old character with an eighty year old one and readers won’t get upset and throw books at him in libraries.
But because Laura Harris is a magnificent publisher and a very fine person, I was hoping she was also thinking, doesn’t matter, we’ll support him in this time of craziness because that’s what we do, support our authors, even when their crazy ideas result in concussion.
I needn’t have worried. When I explained that Now would be the third and final book about Felix (as at that stage I thought it would be), and that since finishing Then I’d been haunted by curiosity about how the terrible and sometimes wonderful events of Felix’s childhood would affect the rest of his life, and that I wanted Felix to have an experience late in his
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- 35226996 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
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- Birth:
- 19530109
- Sleaford (Lincolnshire, England)
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- Children's literature Young adult literature
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- Author Screenwriter Journalist
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- Gleitzman, Morris
- Gleitzman, Maurice, 1953-
- Gelaiziman, Molisi, 1953-
- 葛萊茲曼文, 莫里斯, 1953-
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- Morris Gleitzman (born January 9, 1953) is an Australian writer. He is one of Australia's most successful writers. Morris Gleitzman has also gained recognition for sparking an interest in politically-controversial children's books. Some fun and politically-controversial books include Two Weeks with the Queen, Second Childhood, Other Facts of Life, Misery Guts, Blabber Mouth, Worry Warts, Puppy Fat, Belly Flop, Water Wings, Toad Rage, Toad Heaven, Toad Away, Boy Overboard, Sticky Beak, Gift of the Gab, Adult's Only, Bumface, Teacher's Pet, Girl Underground, Worm Story, Once, Aristotle's Nostril, Doubting Thomas and Give Peas A Chance and Other Funny Stories. He has collaborated on children's series with another Australian children's author, Paul Jennings. Gleitzman has also published three collections of his newspaper columns for The Age and The Syd