After The War: From Auschwitz To Ambleside (Long-Listed For

Description:

"The best children's fiction book I've yet read about the Holocaust" - Tim Robertson, CEO Anne Frank Trust


Summer 1945. The Second World War is finally over and Yossi, Leo and Mordecai are among three hundred children who arrive in the English Lake District. Having survived the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps, they've finally reached a place of safety and peace, where they can hopefully begin to recover.

But Yossi is haunted by thoughts of his missing father and disturbed by terrible nightmares. As he waits desperately for news from home, he fears that Mordecai and Leo - the closest thing to family he has left - will move on without him. Will life by the beautiful Lake Windermere be enough to bring hope back into all their lives?

Review: "The best children's fiction book I've yet read about the Holocaust" -- Tim Robertson, CEO of Anne Frank Trust UK
"Devastatingly moving and massively important, and crucially, fantastically accessible" -- Books for Keeps
"[Palmer's] most compelling bit of real-life hidden history yet" -- The Letterpress Project
"A touching, concisely told yet never dumbed-down, story of childhood during wartime. If you are new to his books, then prepare to be astounded" -- Books for Topics
"Full of heart and hope" -- INIS

Prizes: Long-listed for Carnegie Medal 2021 (UK).

Author Biography:

Tom Palmer was a reluctant reader as a child and credits articles about football with getting him into reading. He went on to become a bookseller and then worked in reader development. He is well known for his hugely successful football fiction for Puffin, and is one of Barrington Stoke's top-selling authors, writing about both sport and history with great appeal. He travels all over the UK visiting schools and working with charities, and is well loved across the book trade.