>>I have a hard time translating my favorite of hers "Karlson and Baby" (?) (in Russian "Malysh i Karlson". AFAIK this book is almost forbidden here in USA...
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>I read somewhere that "Huckleberry Finn" (one of the books on the list I gave you) was deemed inappropriate, and banned in some libraries. This surprised me; I read it, and don't remember anything inappropriate in that book.

Well, it's in our library. As I said, I took it for myself from my last trip. It has both Tom and Huckleberry.

But I'm afraid that the language would be too complex for him. I've read few pages and there are lots of new words for me... Also I don't want him for now to start reading books imitating accent, because it's hard...