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What books did you love as a child? 
Submitted by hearts. 

I grew up reading a lot. My gran used to put us on her knee and read, sing and tell us stories. She remembered a lot of stories by heart. My mom did too - so a lot of my childhood memories is of them telling stories. My mom would also read to us. My favorite books was by a Norwegian childrens book author called Anne Cath. Vestly. She wrote a series of books about a little boy called "lillebror" (little brother) and his kompanion kalled Knerten (sort of like "Tiny"). Knerten was a wooden stick figure doll and was alive to Lillebror. She also wrote a series about a grandmother her son and his big family of seven children. I loved these books and stories, and the books about the grandmother was also filmed - with the author in the role of the grandmother. She also had a series of books about a girl with the same name as me which was also filmed, and I remember watching on TV.

I also grew up with Astrid Lindgren's books, and loved the books "The brothers Lionheart", "Ronja", "Mio my Mio" and of course the books about Pippi. Mio my Mio was the first book I remember reading by myself that was a proper book - not one of those children's books with mostly pictures. I think I was 8 or 9.

All of these Lindgren books have also been filmed, and I watched them over and over again. And I've read them many many times too.

Another favorite author was Roald Dahl.

My absolute favorite Dahl book was Matilda. I LOVED her! but also BFG, The Witches, George's magical medicine, Charile & the chocolate factory (of course) and the gigant peach was among my favorites. Later I also read and loved his short stories and the story about Uncle Oswald.

Other favorites was "the Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnett (?), "Wind in the Willows" by Kenneth Grahame, Little women by Loisa M Alcott and I also vividly remember a book called "Skin Deep". Don't remember the Author, and I've tried searcing for it on google, but don't have the patience today to read through all the hits. It was about a boy in South Africa who were a black albino who didn't feel like he fit in anywhere. That was my first meeting with apartheid I think..