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Hetty Verolme

Hetty’s family was torn apart following the 1940 German Invasion of the Netherlands and rounded up by the Nazis and then separated from their parents, Hetty and her brothers were sent to the ‘Children’s House’ in Belsen Concentration Camp. As one of the eldest Hetty became the ‘Little Mother’ helping to care not only for her siblings but the other children as well. In a direct and powerful style, Hetty recalls one of the remarkable largely untold story of the Holocaust — the extraordinary struggle and survival of this group of 40 children through those terrible years.

Awards

Winner, Christina Stead Award, 2000

Books available from Fremantle Press

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From the Catalogue

Spider Lies

by Jen Banyard with illustrations by Tracey Gibbs

Wilderness Society Award

Congratulations to Sally Morgan whose book The Last Dance won the Wilderness Society’s 2013 Environment Award for Children’s Literature. Meg McKinlay and Kyle Hughes-Odgers were also shortlisted in the same category for Ten Tiny Things