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The author says that in Germany there is such a thing as "Bullerbu-syndrome" desire or belief in an ideal society as exemplified in Astrid Lindgren's books about the Bullerby children. It strikes me that several of he books described in this volume similarly depict ideal, rural societies, e.g. the Little house books & Heidi.

Astrid Lindgren only died in 2002! How the hell did I manage to miss that happening, that's a new low of inattentativeness that I manage to achieve...

In 2019 a Dutch journalist wrote than 97% of Japanese people know all of the characters in the Moomins, which makes me wonder (a) about the other 3%, & (b) about the popularity of these translated books in Japan, we saw that Heidi & Beatrix Potter were also very popular in Japan, (b2),are there no equivalent Japanese books?

The Moomins already appeared in English as a cartoon strip in "the evening News" from 1959, eventually was translated into more than 55 languages

Discussing the role of Laura Ingalls' daughter Rose Lane in writing the 'Little House...' books, this described as 'Rose was likely a true collaborator at most or an aggressive editor at least', in Rose's own diary 10th may '36 she wrote' have to finish my mother's goddam juvenile' 😂

In the forward to a 1997 translation of Huckleberry Finn in to Dutch, the translators revealed that they considered giving Huck an Amsterdam accent and Jim a Limburg accent to try and preserve the speech differences between the two that are in the original, but decided against it. #translation challenges ?

According to Munro Leaf himself, the author of "Ferdinand" (1936), he was never in Spain.

In a continuation from the 1930s written by Charles Tritten, Heidi et ses enfants, there a political element - Heidi as an adult woman takes in refugees during WWI, demonstrating a 20th century version of Swiss values.

All the adaptations of Heidi, it's argued, drop the original context in favour of presenting Heidi as a symbol of cheerful, healthy, outdoors life.

Heidi leert er onder de bezielende invloed van Klara's grootmoeder lezen en bidden, twee zaken die grootvader voor haar niet nodig had gevonden.

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