This book is about a nine-year-old boy called Bruno who moves with his family to a place called “Out With”. Bruno is told that there are many places that he cannot visit but this makes him curious. One day he goes out exploring and comes to a wire fence. He sees a boy sitting on the on the other side of the fence. He is the skinniest and saddest boy Bruno has ever seen and he is wearing striped pyjamas. His name is Shmuel, and so the friendship begins between the two nine year old boys who discover that they share the same birthday. Bruno brings food for Shmuel and when Shmuel tells him that he cannot find his father, Bruno vows to help him do so...
This book is so sad. We see the world through Bruno’s eyes. We hear the lies his parents tell him to cover up the terrible things that are actually happening in “Out With”. The ending is hearthbreaking.
by Kate Finn
St Marylebone Key Stage 3 Reading Blog
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I like this book because when you are reading it you can have a image of what is happening in the story and it feels like your going though the journey with bruno.
ReplyDeleteThe boy in the striped pyjamas is such a good book I couldn't put it down from my hands. The thing I liked is that the writer put so much information so you had a clear image in your head. The other thing I liked is that he made the book so that you never knew what happened next however the thing I didn't like is that he
ReplyDeleterepeated his self too much by this sentence "His mouth was made the shape of an O."
The boy in the striped pyjamas is such a good book I couldn't put it down from my hands. The thing I liked is that the writer put so much information so you had a clear image in your head. The other thing I liked is that he made the book so that you never knew what happened next however the thing I didn't like is that he
ReplyDeleterepeated his self too much by this sentence "His mouth was made the shape of an O."