>>>>Hi Naomi
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>>>>>My son, who is 7 years old, started to like reading. Yesterday evening he surprised me a little bit by finishing "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" in 2 evenings (about 1h.+ reading).
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>>>>It is a great feeling, and esp. knowing that he likes reading. My son too is 7 years old and currently he is reading Enid Blyton's Secert Seven books, next in line is Famous Five series from the same writer.
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>>>>Enid Blyton books are great (These two above series are from my collection *g* I read them and saved them)
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>>>Interesting. Don't remember hearing about this one. I'm adding it to the list.
>>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enid_Blyton
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>>I enjoyed a lot of Enyd Blyton's books when I was a child. Many of her books are detective stories - usually a group of children solving some crime.
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>In this page it says: They have been translated into nearly 90 languages, including Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Japanese, Malay, Slovenian, Spanish, and Swedish.
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>I don't see Russian in the list. Could it be that she was not translated into Russian hence my ignorance?

Books about children allowed to roam freely throughout the country - maybe that wasn't considered a good idea by the old regime. However, they often foiled criminal and espionage plots against the govt. :-)