Katrina Nannestad

The powerful novel from award-winning Australian writer Katrina Nannestad. Shortlisted in the 2021 CBCA Book of the Year Awards. Winner of the 2021 Australian Book Design Awards. Longlisted in the 2021 Australian Book Industry Awards. Sometimes it's good to be wild. Sometimes you have to be wild. When the Russian Army marches into East Prussia at the end of the...

A new heart-wrenching, impeccably researched historical novel for middle-grade readers The Nazis want everyone to be the same. If you're different, you don't belong. Not belonging is dangerous ... Anna's little sister, Eva, is frail and needs time to learn new things. She has a huge heart and a gift for loving, but Hitler doesn't value such riches. And so...

The powerful new novel from master storyteller Katrina Nannestad. 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...

The right book might just change your life ... Mim Cohen roams the world in a travelling bookshop, with her dad and brother and a horse called Flossy. Flossy leads them where she will, to the place where they're needed most ... the place where the perfect book will find its way home. Now Mim has arrived in Salzburg --...

A heartwarming and humorous retelling of the traditional nativity story, told from the viewpoint and 'singing voices' of the baby animals at the inn. A Song for the King is centred around Netta the donkey, who loves to sing with her friends, Esther the sheep and Uzi the camel. They frolic around town from dawn till dusk, braying, bleating, and...

He's the world's vaguest novelist. She's a shy and unusual child. Together, they're travelling the world, one book at a time. For the first ten years of Freja's life, she and her mother Clementine have roamed the Arctic in search of zoological wonders. Happy, content, together. Freja and Clem. Clem and Freja. But now, everything is changing, and Clementine must...

'FANS OF ... JACQUELINE HARVEY WILL LOVE THIS BOOK' – Kids' Book Review on The Girl, the Dog and the Writer in Rome When Freja and Tobias arrive in Claviers, Provence, it feels like home. The hilltop village is surrounded by olive groves, lavender fields, and drifts of red poppies. The market square hides a world-famous pâtisserie and an antique...

Shortlisted for the 2016 Indie Book Awards Olive of Groves is an exciting tale where Olive has always dreamed of attending boarding school, but Mrs Groves' Boarding School for Naughty Boys, Talking Animals and Circus Performers is not what she expected. The headmistress is completely befuddled, and Pig McKenzie, the school bully, is determined to make Olive's life unbearable. Olive,...

'AN ABSOLUTE DELIGHT TO READ, WITH LOTS OF CHARMING AND QUIRKY CHARACTERS' -- Better Reading Freja and her mother, Clementine, are reunited at last. Tobias and Vivi are in love. And Lucerne, their new home, is a paradise of snowy alps, sapphire lakes, white swans, and delicious Swiss chocolate! Everything seems perfect, until poor Lady P appears, bandaged from head...

The third adventure in this incomparably witty series from award-winning author Katrina Nannestad The Queen is coming for tea! Absolutely nothing could possibly spoil this right royal moment. Except for the return of scheming villain, Pig McKenzie... and a strange woman called Thistlebloom... and the fact that the doors of Mrs Groves' Boarding School for Naughty Boys, Talking Animals and...

‘Exciting, imaginative, charming and very, very funny’- Judith Rossell, award-winning author of Withering-by-Sea on Olive of Groves Olive of Groves and the Great Slurp of Time continues Olive's thrilling adventures. Olive is gobsmacked when Basil Heffenhuffenheimer hikes out of the Black Forest in 1857 and unexpectedly arrives at Mrs Groves' Boarding School for Naughty Boys, Talking Animals and Circus Performers....

SO MUCH TO LOVE!- Total Girl Lights! Camera! Action! That's my cue. Harold, I sigh. I think I'm in love. My name's Charlotte, but you can call me Lottie. I'm a movie star. At least, that's my thing this week. Charlotte Perkins is seven years old and can't wait to grow up - if only she could decide what she...

The right book might just change your life ... Mim and the Woeful Wedding follows Mim Cohen as she roams the world in a travelling bookshop with her dad, brother, and a horse named Flossy. Flossy, with her own sense of direction, leads them to the place where they are most needed, where the perfect book will find its way...

The right book might just change your life ... Mim Cohen roams the world in a travelling bookshop, with her dad and brother and a horse called Flossy. Flossy leads them where she will, to the place where they're needed most ... the place where the perfect book will find its way home. Now Mim has arrived in wonderful Venice,...

The right book might just change your life ... Mim Cohen roams the world in a travelling bookshop, with her dad and brother and a horse called Flossy. Flossy leads them where she will, to the place where they're needed most ... the place where the perfect book will find its way home. Now Mim has arrived in the Cotswolds,...

The right book might just change your life ... Mim and the Baffling Bully introduces us to Mim Cohen, who roams the world in a travelling bookshop with her dad, brother, and a horse called Flossy. Flossy leads them to the place where they're needed most—where the perfect book will find its way home. Now, Mim has arrived in a...

The right book might just change your life ... Mim and the Anxious Artist follows Mim Cohen as she roams the world in a travelling bookshop with her dad, brother, and a horse called Flossy. Flossy leads them to the place where they're needed most—the place where the perfect book will find its way home. Now, Mim has arrived in...

New series by award-winning author Katrina Nannestad with black-and-white illustrations. Frances finds her new family — a large bear and a garden gnome. When Frances Bloom posts her bossy parents in a large box to the South Sandwich Islands, her schoolteacher, Ms Thistle, declares that she cannot live alone. To avoid being sent away to Bleak Island Home for Unwanted...

Learn how to write with the multi-award-winning Katrina Nannestad! There is so much about writing that I love -- playing with words, writing rapidly without thinking about where my scribblings might go, gathering ideas, daydreaming, planning, problem solving, and, of course, creating stories. Let's romp, ramble, dabble and dance in storytelling. Just for fun. It will get your imagination whirring,...

The powerful novel from award-winning Australian writer Katrina Nannestad. Shortlisted in the 2021 CBCA Book of the Year Awards. Winner of the 2021 Australian Book Design Awards. Longlisted in the 2021 Australian Book Industry Awards. Sometimes it's good to be wild. Sometimes you have to be wild. When the Russian Army marches into East Prussia at the end of the...

A new heartwarming novel set in 1950s Australia from bestselling author Katrina Nannestad. Silver Linings follows Nettie Sweeney, who has a dad, three big sisters, a farm full of cows, and a cat called Mittens. But it's not enough. She longs for a mother—one with a gentle touch and sparkles in her eyes. Instead, she has Aunty Edith with slappy...

Award-winning writer Katrina Nannestad transports us to Russia and the Great Patriotic War and into the life of Sasha, a soldier at only six years old ... Katrina Nannestad follows up her remarkable novel We Are Wolves with a powerful new historical standalone, exploring an intriguing aspect of the Second World War. Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief invites readers into the...

Do you like ANIMALS, FAMILY and SURPRISING STORIES? Then this book is YOUR NEXT READ! It all starts with Boo, the owl. Bea and Bart take her home and love her. Soon, they have a feathered family! But Bea and Bart are not the only ones interested in these unusual birds … From the creators of Your Kid's Next Read – the largest...

Relish in mischief, adventure and the most unusual family ever, with the bestselling and multi-award-winning Katrina Nannestad. Frances Bloom: Dangerous Days transports readers into a world where Frances Bloom's dreams have come true. Her grandparents are a honey-coloured bear and a garden gnome. Nasty Ms Thistle has been taken to Harsh Island Home for Unwanted Teachers and Cats. Her class...

Relish in mischief, adventure and the most unusual family ever, with the bestselling and multi-award-winning Katrina Nannestad. Frances Bloom: Star Rescue immerses readers in the delightful world of Frances Bloom, who has everything she needs—a cottage by the sea, a fairyfloss machine and grandparents who never say, 'Don't!' Life is perfect until Steven Starmaker begins searching for his runaway movie...

A new heart-wrenching, well-researched historical novel for middle-grade readers. 'The weirdest thing,' continues Tove, 'is that I don't feel any different to the rest of you.' 'That's because you're not!' snaps Birgitte. 'You're Danish.' 'So why do the Nazis hate me and not you?' When twelve-year-old Viggo and his friends Finn, Tove, Birgitte and Konrad start writing rude letters to...

The right book might just change your life ... Mim Cohen roams the world in a travelling bookshop, with her dad and brother and a horse called Flossy. Flossy leads them where she will, to the place where they're needed most ... the place where the perfect book will find its way home. Now Mim has arrived in thrilling Norway—the...

Winner of the 2014 NSW Premier's Literary Award for Children's Literature A Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Notable Book When Inge Maria arrives on the tiny island of Bornholm in Denmark to live with her grandmother, she's not sure what to expect. Inge Maria tries not to feel sorry for herself, but she misses her mama. And on top...

Award-winning Australian author Katrina Nannestad's much-loved Red Dirt Diaries, now with amazing new covers! Blue Weston's life is spiralling out of control. Her parents are sending her to boarding school next year. Her mad twin brothers are building pig chariots in the back shed. Her best friend has been abducted by zombies and replaced with a boy-crazy tween. And then...

SO MUCH TO LOVE! - Total Girl Charlotte Perkins is seven years old and can't wait to grow up—if only she could decide what she wanted to be! Luckily, no dream is too big for little Lottie Perkins. In this bumper collection, go on four hilarious adventures with Lottie as she explores the worlds of movies, ballet, music, and fashion!...

Shortlisted for the 2016 Indie Awards, this bookseller favourite is now in paperback! Olive of Groves tells the story of Olive, who has always dreamed of attending boarding school. However, Mrs Groves' Boarding School for Naughty Boys, Talking Animals and Circus Performers is not what she expected. To tell the truth, dear reader, it is not what anyone expected! The...

Blue's News (Red Dirt Diaries, #3) by Katrina Nannestad Blue Weston is on a mission! She's starting Hardbake Plains' first ever newspaper with Mat and Ben. She's determined not to like her new teacher, the Colonel, and she's trying to convince Miss McKenzie to come back from Scotland. But despite Blue's best intentions, things don't go exactly to plan. And...

Award-winning Australian author Katrina Nannestad's much-loved Red Dirt Diaries, now with amazing new covers! Ages: 8-12 Blue Weston is on a mission! She's starting Hardbake Plains' first-ever newspaper with Mat and Ben. She's determined not to like her new teacher, the Colonel. And she's trying to convince Miss McKenzie to come back from Scotland. But despite Blue's best intentions, things...