I love a good audiobook and I've been known to enjoy a good historical fiction read as well. When the opportunity came up to share title this with you I wanted to participate. If you enjoy young adult fiction as well as historical fiction, then you'll want to read on and find out more about this book! Anna and the Swallow Man was released yesterday, so it's available for you to download now! I'm very happy to share with you an exclusive clip not yet available to the public! Click here to listen to the clip of the audiobook! Not into audiobooks? No problem, I also have an exclusive book excerpt below that you can read.
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers | Listening Library
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Format: Hardcover & Audio MP3
Pages: 240 pages | Audio Length: Approx 6.5 hours
Narrator: Allan Corduner
Genre: Young Adult, Historical Fiction
Synopsis: Kraków, 1939. A million marching soldiers and a thousand barking dogs. This is no place to grow up. Anna Łania is just seven years old when the Germans take her father, a linguistics professor, during their purge of intellectuals in Poland. She's alone.
And then Anna meets the Swallow Man. He is a mystery, strange and tall, a skilled deceiver with more than a little magic up his sleeve, and when the soldiers in the streets look at him, they see what he wants them to see.
The Swallow Man is not Anna's father--she knows that very well--but she also knows that, like her father, he's in danger of being taken, and like her father, he has a gift for languages: Polish, Russian, German, Yiddish, even Bird. When he summons a bright, beautiful swallow down to his hand to stop her from crying, Anna is entranced. She follows him into the wilderness.
Over the course of their travels together, Anna and the Swallow Man will dodge bombs, tame soldiers, and even, despite their better judgment, make a friend. But in a world gone mad with war, everything can prove dangerous. Even the Swallow Man.
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Format: Hardcover & Audio MP3
Pages: 240 pages | Audio Length: Approx 6.5 hours
Narrator: Allan Corduner
Genre: Young Adult, Historical Fiction
Synopsis: Kraków, 1939. A million marching soldiers and a thousand barking dogs. This is no place to grow up. Anna Łania is just seven years old when the Germans take her father, a linguistics professor, during their purge of intellectuals in Poland. She's alone.
And then Anna meets the Swallow Man. He is a mystery, strange and tall, a skilled deceiver with more than a little magic up his sleeve, and when the soldiers in the streets look at him, they see what he wants them to see.
The Swallow Man is not Anna's father--she knows that very well--but she also knows that, like her father, he's in danger of being taken, and like her father, he has a gift for languages: Polish, Russian, German, Yiddish, even Bird. When he summons a bright, beautiful swallow down to his hand to stop her from crying, Anna is entranced. She follows him into the wilderness.
Over the course of their travels together, Anna and the Swallow Man will dodge bombs, tame soldiers, and even, despite their better judgment, make a friend. But in a world gone mad with war, everything can prove dangerous. Even the Swallow Man.
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Happy Reading & Listening,
~Tamara
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