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Katrina Nannestad Katrina Nannestad i(A64476 works by)
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'Katrina Nannestad grew up in central-western NSW. After studying arts and education at the University of New England in Armidale, she worked as a primary school teacher.' (Source: Booktopia website)

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y separately published work icon Waiting for the Storks Sydney : ABC Books , 2022 25391731 2022 single work children's fiction children's historical fiction

'The powerful new novel from master storyteller Katrina Nannestad.

'I don't want to remember the truck, or the night I was taken, or the family I left behind. I am not a sad Polish girl. I am a good and happy German girl.

'I am. I am. I am.

'It's the Second World War and Himmler's Lebensborn Program is in full flight when eight-year-old Zofia Ulinski is kidnapped by the Germans. She has blonde hair and blue eyes, just like the other Polish children taken from their families and robbed of their names, their language, their heritage.

'But when Zofia is adopted into a wealthy and loving German family, it is easier, it is safer to bury her past, deep down, so everything is forgotten. Until the Polish boy arrives.

'And the past comes back to haunt her.' (Publication summary)

2023 longlisted APA Book Design Awards Best Designed Children’s Fiction Book designed by Hazel Lam.
2023 CBCA Book of the Year Awards Notable Book Younger Readers
y separately published work icon Mim and the Woeful Wedding Sydney : ABC Books , 2022 23807646 2022 single work children's fiction children's

'The right book might just change your life ...

'Mim Cohen roams the world in a travelling bookshop, with her dad and brother and a horse called Flossy. Flossy leads them where she will, to the place where they're needed most ... the place where the perfect book will find its way home.

'Now Mim has arrived on a charming Greek Island, where a wedding is about to take place. Everyone is excited - everyone, that is, except the bride and groom.

'Mim knows they're here to help Anjelica, the bride. To stop the wedding. To set her free to follow her dreams.

'If only Anjelica would read the right book, the one Mim gave her. If only she would stop reading the wrong book.' (Publication summary)

2023 CBCA Book of the Year Awards Notable Book Younger Readers
y separately published work icon Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief Sydney : ABC Books , 2021 22124116 2021 single work children's fiction children's historical fiction

'Award-winning writer Katrina Nannestad transports us to Russia and the Great Patriotic War and into the life of Sasha, a soldier at only six years old ...

'Wood splinters and Mama screams and the nearest soldier seizes her roughly by the arms. My sister pokes her bruised face out from beneath the table and shouts, 'Run, Sasha! Run!'

'So I run. I run like a rabbit.

'It's spring, 1942. The sky is blue, the air is warm and sweet with the scent of flowers.

'And then everything is gone.

'The flowers, the proud geese, the pretty wooden houses, the friendly neighbours. Only Sasha remains.

'But one small boy, alone in war-torn Russia, cannot survive.

'One small boy without a family cannot survive.

'One small boy without his home cannot survive.

'What that small boy needs is an army.' (Publication summary)

2023 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Books
2022 winner HNSA Historical Novel Prize Children and Young Adult
2022 winner CBCA Book of the Year Awards Book of the Year: Younger Readers Shadowers' Choice Award
2022 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's History Prize New South Wales History Prize Young People's History Prize
2022 winner Booksellers Choice Award Children's Book of the Year
2022 honour book CBCA Book of the Year Awards Book of the Year: Younger Readers
2022 shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Australian Book of the Year for Younger Children
2022 CBCA Book of the Year Awards Notable Book Younger Readers
2022 winner Indie Awards Children's
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