The Mozart Question

Product Description
Recommended for the Building Bridges of Understanding, 3rd to 6th class introducing prediction.
Recommended for the Building Bridges of Understanding, 2nd to 6th class to support children’s use of inferring.
Recommended for the Building Bridges of Understanding for 3rd to 6th class, to support children’s use of questioning and synthesising.

When Lesley is sent to Venice to interview world-renowned violinist Paulo Levi on his fiftieth birthday, she cannot believe her luck. She is told that she can ask him anything at all – except the Mozart question. But it is Paulo himself who decides that it is time for the truth to be told. And so follows the story of his parents as Jewish prisoners of war, forced to play Mozart violin concertos for the enemy; how they watched fellow Jews being led off to their deaths and knew that they were playing for their lives. As the story unfolds, the journalist begins to understand the full horror of war, and how one group of musicians survived using the only weapon they had – music.
About the Author
Michael Morpurgo, the 2003-2005 Children’s Laureate, is widely recognized as a master storyteller, and has won numerous awards for his work, including the Smarties Book Prize, the Writer’s Guild Award and the Children’s Book Award (for The Wreck of the Zanzibar). Michael lives in Devon. Michael Foreman is one of the world’s leading illustrators. He has won several major awards, including the Kate Greenaway Medal, most recently for War Boy. He lives in London.

Recommended for the Building Bridges of Understanding, 3rd to 6th class introducing prediction.