Waiting for the Storks
$26.90
- Hardcover
320 pages
- Release Date
3 November 2022
Summary
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 w…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780733342271 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0733342272 |
| Author: | Katrina Nannestad |
| Publisher: | ABC Books |
| Imprint: | ABC Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 3 November 2022 |
| Weight: | 504g |
| Dimensions: | 35mm x 162mm x 220mm |
| Audience Age: | 12 |
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Critics Review
*Waiting for the Storks *is the latest historical fiction title from Katrina Nannestad, transporting the reader to the Second World War and the time of Himmler’s Lebensborn Program, in which the Nazi ideal of a pure race was front and centre. Blonde-haired and blue-eyed Zofia lives an altered but happy life in German-occupied Poland, until a chance encounter with soldiers results in her being ripped from her family and all she has known. Zofia finds herself on a new path; stripped of her Polish heritage, renamed and re-homed with a wealthy German family, she has been reinvented into the role of a poor orphaned ‘German girl’ who has been given a second chance. With limited options she tries to embrace the lie, pushing away memories of the old. But the past is hard to forget and Zofia soon realises that you can never ignore who you really are. Nannestad masterfully brings the importance of connection, family and belonging to the forefront through her storytelling. Waiting for the Storks touches on the trauma of separation and displacement, and Nannestad does so in a gentle way, opening up a historical portal for readers aged 11 and older. Zofia’s struggle to remain true to her identity, while also wanting to survive and be loved gives her an authentic voice and her story offers a relatable way for young readers to explore the darker avenues of the world’s history. M H Alessandrino is a Perth-based writer and a freelance reviewer
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.
Katrina grew up in country New South Wales, in a neighbourhood stuffed full of happy children. Her adult years have been spent raising boys, teaching, daydreaming and pursuing her love of stories. Katrina celebrates family, friendship and belonging in her writing. She also loves creating stories that bring joy or hope to other people’s lives.
Katrina now lives on a hillside in central Victoria with her husband, a silly whippet called Olive and a mob of kangaroos.
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