The Zebra’s Great Escape

From the picture on the front cover, we realise The Zebra’s Great Escape is not a gentle bedtime story. It shows a determined girl riding on a zebra followed by a scruffy dog. AN ADVENTURE!  is proclaimed by the bold colouring, silver letters and determined...

The School That Escaped the Nazis

Anna Essinger had great foresight in 1933, but never did she imagine that anything as inconceivably barbaric and inhumane could come to pass as Hitler and the Nazi party’s reign of terror; horror beyond what imagination could grasp. In her comprehensively researched...

Escape Artist: The incredible Second World War of Johnny Peck

Johnny Peck was obviously born to be different, to accept that nothing sent to him to could not be overcome with a little thought, unswerving courage, a bit of good luck  and sheer determination. Peck grew up in a family that was struggling to cope with the after...