Penguin Random House South Africa

Categories: Children, Children 9-12 Years, Children's Fiction, International Fiction
ISBN: 9781784870539
Published: November 2015
Imprint: Vintage Children's Classics
Page Extent: 464
Format: Flexible plastic / vinyl cover
RRP 215.00

King Matt The First

Janusz Korczak

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'Children! I, Matt the First, appeal for your help in carrying out my reforms'

Little Matt becomes King Matt when he is just a young boy. He can barely even read or write and he certainly doesn't know anything about governing a country. What should he do? What would you do?

Ignoring his grown-up ministers, he builds the finest zoo in the world and decrees that children should be given chocolate every day. But ruling turns out to be a much trickier business than Matt ever realised.

Can the happiness of a nation depend on one small boy? Well, let's find out...

Includes exclusive material: In the Backstory you can discover the life story of the brave author and put your governing skills to the test.

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About the Author

Janusz Korczak

Janusz Korczak

Janusz Korczak was born in 1878 and died in 1942. He was a Polish physician and educator who wrote over twenty books - his fiction was in his time as well known as Peter Pan, and his non-fiction works bore passionate messages of child advocacy. During the Second World War, the Jewish orphanage he directed was relocated to the Warsaw ghetto. Although Korczak's celebrity afforded him many chances to escape, he refused to abandon the children. He was killed at Treblinka along with the children. His works have not been forgotten, especially by teachers: there are Janusz Korczak societies in over a dozen countries.

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