Waiting for the Storks by Katrina Nannestad
About Katrina Nannestad
Katrina Nannestad is an award-winning Australian author. Her books include the CBCA-shortlisted We Are Wolves, The Girl Who Brought Mischief, the Travelling Bookshop series, the Girl, the Dog and the Writer series, the Olive of Groves series, the Red Dirt Diaries series, the Lottie Perkins series, and the historical novel Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief.
A Quote from Katrina Nannestad
“Wow! I’m thrilled and honoured that Waiting For the Storks has made it to the shortlist of the ARA Historical Novel Prize.”
“Historical fiction is such an exciting genre, for both the reader and the writer. It has the potential to entertain, educate, challenge and inspire. This shortlisting is a huge encouragement to me as I continue to explore lesser known stories of war and share them with my young readers.”
About Waiting for the Storks
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.
From Katrina Nannestad, multi-award-winning author of We Are Wolves and Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief, comes a story about family lost and found, and the choices we make when we don’t have a choice at all.
