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Description: A gorgeously illustrated and magical original fairy tale celebrating the seasons It's King Winter's birthday and he wants it to be really special. He wants all of his brothers and sisters to be there: King Summer Queen Spring and Queen Autumn. But the leaves and the trees whisper a warning and as the four play magical games something strange begins to happen outside. This timeless fairy tale is a celebration of nature's rhythms and of a chaotic world restored to order. It was adapted from a story by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz celebrated author of The Passenger. Boschwitz was a refugee from Nazi Germany: he fled aged 20, in 1935. Young as he was he understood that it was not safe for someone like him with a Jewish - born father to stay. He went from country to country until he made it to England in 1939. Before long Britain was at war with Germany which meant Ulrich was branded an enemy alien and so along with other German Jews he was interned in a camp in the Isle of Man. There he wrote King Winter's Birthday which he called A Fairy Tale. The story was never published and Boschwitz was tragically killed in an attack by a German submarine when he was being transported from Australia back to England. This story of the four seasons and a demanding birthday boy lay undiscovered for decades until now.
Title: King Winter's Birthday
Author(s): Freedland Jonathan, Emily Sutton
Publisher: Pushkin Children's Books
Barcode: 9781782694670
Pages: 40 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 11/4/2025
Category: Picture Books
Description: A gorgeously illustrated and magical original fairy tale celebrating the seasons It's King Winter's birthday and he wants it to be really special. He wants all of his brothers and sisters to be there: King Summer Queen Spring and Queen Autumn. But the leaves and the trees whisper a warning and as the four play magical games something strange begins to happen outside. This timeless fairy tale is a celebration of nature's rhythms and of a chaotic world restored to order. It was adapted from a story by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz celebrated author of The Passenger. Boschwitz was a refugee from Nazi Germany: he fled aged 20, in 1935. Young as he was he understood that it was not safe for someone like him with a Jewish - born father to stay. He went from country to country until he made it to England in 1939. Before long Britain was at war with Germany which meant Ulrich was branded an enemy alien and so along with other German Jews he was interned in a camp in the Isle of Man. There he wrote King Winter's Birthday which he called A Fairy Tale. The story was never published and Boschwitz was tragically killed in an attack by a German submarine when he was being transported from Australia back to England. This story of the four seasons and a demanding birthday boy lay undiscovered for decades until now.
Title: King Winter's Birthday
Author(s): Freedland Jonathan, Emily Sutton
Publisher: Pushkin Children's Books
Barcode: 9781782694670
Pages: 40 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 11/4/2025
Category: Picture Books