Mara Wilson Narrates Audiobook for Katherine Applegate's 'Wombat Waiting'
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By Victoria Edel Published on May 12, 2026 12:24PM EDT
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Summary
Mara Wilson agreed to narrate the audiobook for Katherine Applegate's new children's book 'Wombat Waiting' because of her deep connection to Applegate's earlier work, particularly the Everworld series, which she loved in middle school. The book follows a dog displaced by wildfires searching for its owner.
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· 3 pulledThe Everworld books, the book series she did after Animorphs, those books were everything to me in middle school.
I got all my friends to read them and I was very into mythology and they were all about mythology.
And I loved the characters so much and I think they we
The new book from the 'Animorphs' and 'Everworld' author follows a dog who's displaced by wildfires and looking for her person.

