Katrina Nannestad’s ‘Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief’ has been shortlisted at the 2023 YABBA Awards!
On the 17th of May, the 2023 YABBA Awards shortlisted Australian books were announced with Katrina Nannestad’s ‘Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief’ being shortlisted in the Fiction for Years 7-9 category…
‘Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief’ is set in Spring, 1942. The sky is blue, the air is warm and sweet. 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 a home cannot survive. What that small boy needs is an army.
The Young Australians Best Book Awards (YABBA) is an organisation that aims to provide children a voice within the general Australian children’s book industry. YABBA encourages children to recommend recent Australian published books, read all the recommendations for their peers, rate them against all others and then finally reward that book they feel is best.
Voting by Victorian school students closes on the 15th of September with the winners being announced on the 19th of October.