Katrina Nannestad’s ‘Waiting for the storks’ long-listed for a Children’s Historical Fiction award!

Once Upon a Festival author, Katrina Nannestad, has just had her most recently published book ‘Waiting for the storks’ long-listed for the 2023 Book Links Award for Children’s Historical Fiction!

Waiting for the storks is set during 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.

The Winner is announced on the 19th of July. Best wishes to Katrina for great success at the 2023 Book Links Award for Children’s Historical Fiction!