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Waiting for the Storks

By: Katrina Nannestad
Narrated by: Imogen Sage
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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 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.

2023, Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) Book of the Year for Younger Children, Short-listed

2023, Queensland Literary Awards, Winner

2023, ARA Historical Novel Prize Children and Young Adult, Long-listed

2024, Young Australians' Best Book Award (YABBA) Years 7-9, Short-listed

©2022 Copyright Katrina Nannestad. Katrina Nannestad asserts her moral right to be identified as the author of this Work. First published in English by HarperCollins Publishers Australia Pty Limited in. (P)2022 Bolinda Publishing. This audio version produced by arrangement with HarperCollins Publishers Australia Pty Limited. Action & Adventure Fiction Growing Up Growing Up & Facts of Life Historical Historical Fiction Literature & Fiction Survival Stories Survival
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I loved it all so much I hope my children and grandchildren love it as much as me, for it is my life I can’t stand to be away from it

The whimsical magical history turn to a story for children, easy my favourite book

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This was a beautiful book! The peformance was excellent and I greatly enjoyed the novel. Katrina Nannastead is an amazing author, and Waiting For the Storks was no exception to her phenomonal series of war books. A talent she has is putting her readers in the story and let them watch the character and empathise with every bit of story and the peformance allowed me to further delve myself into the horrible story of Zofia Ulinski. The novel in itself in phenomonal, explaining the loss and hardship of the Polish children and showing many perspectives of the war. All together, an amazing listen and I would definitely reccomend it to any age above 10+.

A Heart-Wrenching Beautifully Written Story

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I love Katrina’s books and find her way of dealing with such horrendous experiences really well done.

Touching story of choice/grief/love

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