{"id":11057,"date":"2026-07-30T02:53:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T02:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?p=11057"},"modified":"2026-07-30T02:53:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T02:53:48","slug":"bookbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/bookbird\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookbird!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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So honoured to have two articles referencing my novel, Stolen Child<\/strong><\/em> (Stolen Girl) in the newest edition of Bookbird<\/strong>! Thank you Mateusz \u015awietlicki and Sharon Smulders for writing such interesting pieces. Stolen Child<\/strong><\/em> holds a special place in my heart. It was the first of my Scholastic WWII novels, and is the only one set in Canada. It was written as a tribute to my dear late mother-in-law, whose own WWII experiences inspired the story. Here’s a pic of her as a child:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ukrainian edition<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Korean edition<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So honoured to have two articles referencing my novel, Stolen Child (Stolen Girl) in the newest edition of Bookbird! Thank you Mateusz \u015awietlicki and Sharon Smulders for writing such interesting pieces. Stolen Child holds a special place in my heart. It was the first of my Scholastic WWII novels, and is the only one set … Continue reading “Bookbird!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[262],"tags":[1097,1096,91,353,283,189,432,7,51],"class_list":["post-11057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-stories","tag-bookbird","tag-ibby","tag-lebensborn","tag-scholastic","tag-scholastic-canada","tag-stolen-child","tag-stolen-girl","tag-ukrainian","tag-wwii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11059,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11057\/revisions\/11059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}