Max and the Cats number of zoo animals caged in the hold—but after being rescued and making a life for himself in Brazil continues to find his German past impossible to escape. The novel came to widespread public attention in 2002 when Canadian writer Yann Martel won the Man Booker Prize for "Life of Pi". Martel's novel is about a boy, Pi, who finds himself trapped on a boat with a tiger after the ship he and his family are sailing on sinks. The family were zookeepers, and the animals they were transporting in the hold sink with the rest of the ship, except
Yann Samuell alternate film adaptation of Pergaud's novel was directed by Christophe Barratier as "La novelle guerre des boutons" (2011), set during World War II in Occupied France. Both films were released in France during the same week in September 2011. Barratier's film is being distributed in the United States as "The War of the Buttons" (2012). Samuell also directed the film adaption of the Gothic children's novel "The Great Ghost Rescue" (1975) by Eva Ibbotson. It was released in 2011. Yann Samuell Yann Samuell (born 7 June 1965) is a French film director and screenwriter. Samuell went to film school and