My daughter is reading this at school and loves it, she read it at school then had to get another copy from the library so that she could read it again. She has also seen the movie twice now. So I thought I'd give it a go to see what the fuss was all about.

It's a quick read and interesting. A nice way of getting kids to understand about what happened to the Jews in the concentration camps. The main character is the Commandant's 9 year old son Bruno who has had to move house to a place called "Out With" (I assume this is Auschwitz). The weakness in the book for me was Bruno, he seems like he has had an education, but he is incredibly immature. I know a lot of things would be beyond his understanding and maybe I'm expecting too much from him but he still annoyed me at times. Making him a bit brighter may have allowed the author to get across more info about what happened.

Still a damn sight more interesting than the stuff I was forced to read when at school.