A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.

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What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.

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it's definitely best for little children to have a regular life, especially if they can regulate it themselves.

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You understand Teacher, don't you, that when you have a mother who's an angel and a father who is a cannibal king, and when you have sailed on the ocean all your whole life, then you don't know just how to behave in school with all the apples and ibexes.

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