There are books that everyone should read in childhood. Among them are the books of the famous Norwegian writer ANNE-KATRINE WESTLI (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. In 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 - "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 Cunning Girls" and "Meet Gyuro!" Both of them open entire series: Shchepkin is about a little boy and his best friend, a wooden man, and the second is about a cheerful little girl named Gyuro.
All of Westley's books have a common social component: they tell stories of poor families with all their housing, financial and everyday difficulties; some of the characters live in single-parent families, parents work in low-status jobs, and 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 house and expensive toys are not the most important thing for a child; what is much more important is the atmosphere of comfort and care in which happy children grow up.
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