Media Bites Catalogue Nov 22 - SOCIAL

Diary of a Rescued Wombat

Waiting for the Storks K ATR I NA NANN E S TAD 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.

JACK I E F R E NCH AND BRUC E WHAT L E Y

She is small. She is scared. She is lost.

She is a baby wombat who needs a home

She is Mothball, a wombat destined to become famous.

Released: 03/11/22 NSH | 32pp AU $24.95 NZ $26.95 Imprint: HarperCollins JACKIEFRENCH.COM BRUCEWHATLEY.COM

This is the (almost) true story of one small wombat who learnt how to train her humans - and inspired the

Every kid wants to laugh, and Max is the boy who can make it happen. He’s also the boy who absolutely, definitely, does not under any circumstances want a cat. So why did Mum and Dad just bring one home? Max is the funny kid ... but now a cat is here to ruin his life! Cat bums, cat claws, ticklish cats, piano playing cats, cats that will run away and cats that won’t (oh, and a jealous Duck in a jacuzzi) are just some of the things in store for Max and his friends in this brand-new Funny Kid adventure! FUNNY KID is the mega-bestselling series from author-illustrator Matt Stanton that has everyone laughing! internationally best-selling picture book Diary of a Wombat by Jackie French and Bruce Whatley. Funny Kid Catastrophe (#11) MAT T S TANTON

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. Released: 03/11/22 NSP | 320pp AU $19.99 NZ $21.99 Imprint: ABC KATR I NANANN E S TAD. COM

Released: 03/11/22 BPB | 240 pp AU $19.99 NZ $21.99 Imprint: ABC

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