His many international bestsellers include The Heart's Invisible Furies and A Ladder to the Sky. His 2006 novel The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas has sold more than 11 million copies worldwide and has been adapted for cinema, theatre, ballet, and opera.

His most celebrated novels include Pied Piper (1942), No Highway (1948), A Town Like Alice (1950) and On the Beach (1957).John Boyne (Introducer) John Boyne is the author of fourteen novels for adults, six for younger readers, and a collection of short stories. After the war he continued to write and settled in Australia where he lived until his death on 12 January 1960. During the Second World War he joined the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve where he worked on developing secret weapons. In 1931 he married Frances Mary Heaton and they went on to have two daughters. He worked as an aeronautical engineer and published his first novel, Marazan, in 1926. After attending the Dragon School and Shrewsbury School, he studied Engineering Science at Balliol College, Oxford. It was easy to read.Nevil Shute (Author) Nevil Shute was born on 17 January 1899 in Ealing, London. It was fun to read a war story about an old man and children. Anna is a German girl.ĩ Narrator: It is written in a sort of I perspective.ġ0 I liked the book. Ronnie and Sheila are English Children living in Switzerland. The children: Their names are Ronnie, Sheila, Pierre, Rose, Willem, Marjan en Anna. She helps him and accompanies him on the last part of his journey. He brings the children safely to England and sends them to his daughter in America. He goes to France to find rest when he hears that news. He has a daughter living in America and a son in the RAF. Quotation: 'Howard settled down at Cidoton quite confortably.' (p.21 l.2) Quotation: 'He left London on the morning of April the 10th, the very morning that the news came through that Germany had invaded Denmark and Norway.' (p.17 l.8-10) They let him go to England if he promises to take a German child and he accepts.ĥa The story plays short before and in the Second World War.

At the end he is captured by the Germans. A young French girl accompanies him at the last part of the journey. He was married and had a wife and two daughters.Ĥ A 70 years old Englishman tries to get back from France to England when the Germans invade France. His first novel was 'So Disdained' in 1926.

He got his writing talent from his parents. De taal ervan is Engels en het aantal woorden bedraagt 449 woorden.ī explain the title: The title refers to the main character, Howard, because he looks pied at the end of the story and piper because he makes whistles for the children.ģ Nevil Shute Norway was born in 1899 and died in 1960.

Pied piper by nevil shute