There are books that everyone needs to read as a child. Among them are books by the famous Norwegian writer ANNE-KATRINA VESTLEY (1920–2008). In her homeland, her name is known to everyone, and her popularity in Europe can only be compared with the popularity of Astrid Lindgren. Over more than half a century of literary creativity, Westli wrote 56 books and received the honorary title of Grandmother of all Norway.
Her most famous book is Dad, Mom, Eight Kids and a Truck, about a family with eight children living in a small apartment in Oslo. The most famous, but far from the only one. In addition to “Eight Children,” she also has “Shchepkin and the Insidious Girls” and “Meet Gyuro!” Both of them open up entire series: Shchepkin - about a little boy and his best friend - a man made of wood, and the second - about a little cheerful girl named Gyuro.
All Westley's books have a common social component: they tell the stories of poor families with all their housing, financial and everyday difficulties, some of the heroes live in single-parent families, parents work in low-prestige jobs, children are often left to their own devices.
And yet there is no bitterness in the books, but there is a feeling that a beautiful home and expensive toys are not the main thing for a child, what is more important is the atmosphere of comfort and care in which happy children grow up.
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