#WritersCoffeeClub 8. Did you like to read as a child? Which books did you read?

I loved reading from a very young age. Among my childhood favorites were Michael Ende's Neverending Story, Astrid Lindgren's Ronja Robbers' Daughter, Rosemary Sutcliff's novels (*all* of them), Auguste Lechner's retellings of medieval epics, Simon & Desi Ruge's Katze mit Hut, the German editions of Enid Blyton's Mallory Towers and St. Clare's, L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables books, & Frederica de Cesco's bks 

 The German editions of Blyton's books are quite interesting bec they're not translations as such. The books were heavily revised for the German market with different names for the characters & schools. In addition, both series were continued by ghost writers.

Moreover, in Germany we have a whole series of Enid Blyton books for which there is no English equivalent: The first 3 novels of the Tina & Tini mystery series are based on stand-alone titles written by Blyton, the rest are ghost written.