<p>Once I escaped from an orphanage to find Mum and Dad.<p><p>Once I saved a girl called Zelda from a burning house.<p><p>Once I made a Nazi with toothache laugh.<p><p>My name is Felix.<p><p>This is my story.<p><p>Everybody deserves to have something good in their life.<p><p>At least once.<p><p>"Gleitzman’s reading is precise and lovely, often delivered in an understated whisper, emphasizing the intensity of the story and the author’s skill as a consummate storyteller. Klezmer music punctuates the chapters. Once is very much a story about storytelling memory. Seldom does a story come along so powerful in its simplicity." —<i>AudioFile</i> magazine<p>