This is the ONLY book I have two copies of. I was 4 years old then and my mother wrote the following: “to my daughter so that you can fall in love with reading.” This copy is falling apart and I bought another one when I was older. I still have my first copy of this from 1980, the year the book came out. It is all about this boy who was just… a happy boy.

It is the story of a young boy who was different from anyone else. He is an amazing writer and my favorite is O Menino Maluquinho (roughly translated as The Crazy Boy). When I was ten years old, I was in love with Ziraldo’s books. This means all the children’s books I read were by Brazilian authors. Please remember I am Brazilian and grew up in Brazil. What was your favorite book when you were ten years old? Probably Mara Daughter of the Nile again.ĥ. What book have you read more than any other?ĭon’t laugh but that would be The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupéry That’s easy and it is not a secret at all: Sebastian St Vincent from Devil In Winter by Lisa Kleypas.Ĥ. What fictional character are you secretly in love with? I’ve read my old copies to the point where the books have literally fallen apart, and I’ve lent out copies that somehow never make it home.ģ. I generally try to stick with the one copy rule to save my wallet from complete ruin, but if I had to say the book I’ve had to re-purchase the most over the years, it would have to be Mara Daughter of the Nile by Eloise Jarvis McGraw. I’m not even sure who the runner up would be I read a lot of series’ so it’s probably inadvertently Laurell K. I have two bookshelves full of King, and that’s not counting some of my older, tattered books back at my family home or the Dark Tower spinoff comics.

What author do you own the most books by?Īgatha Christie – I own all of her books and read every single one of them by the age of 13. We saw this at Kati’s place (who saw it at Nicola’s) and we thought: wow, what a cool meme, we want to play too!ġ.

O Menino Maluquinho by Ziraldo