Hi everyone! My name is Frede and today, I thought I would do a little video where I talk about
my favourite books from my childhood. Now I got this idea from Karen at KarenReads,
I'm gonna link her channel down below. She did a video where she talked about her favourite books from
before BookTube. So I thought I'm gonna do a childhood favourites video,
because there were a lot of books that I connect with a lot of nostalgia
and I just kinda wanted to talk about them.
I was basically a huge reader as a child. So I think when I kind of sort of became a teenager
I kind of read a bit less. So from the age of around 13 to say 17, 18 I did not read a lot of books,
so the books that I'm going to talk about right now are
basically from before the time where I kind of stopped reading for a couple of years.
Obviously I used to love Harry Potter like- I mean we are the Harry Potter generation, aren't we?
So I grew up with Harry Potter, I love the films, I love the books,
but I thought I would talk about something different than Harry Potter today
because we always talk about Harry Potter and there are other books [laughs].
And I'm basically gonna go in the- in chronological order basically.
So I'm gonna start with one of the earliest books kind of that I remember.
And I'm going to start with this one which is called Briefe von Felix which means letters from Felix.
This is a children's book that I think the first time I read it my parents read this to me
but when I was able to read it I also read it myself. So it's about this little girl called Sophie,
and at the end of the summer holidays I think, she realises that she's lost Felix who is her plush bunny
who's also her best friend kind of, and I think their at an airport or something,
and she realises that he's gone. And she's really upset because she can't find him.
But then after a while she starts getting letters.
And it's the cutest thing because those are actual envelopes, you can open them up,
this one is from the UK. And then there is a letter.
And then- So bascially Felix travels the world because he got lost at- I think it was an airport,
and now he travels the world and sends little letters to Sophie.
And it's just really, really cute. Probably, the depictions of all the countries are a bit stereotypical but I know
that I used to love this so much. He visits London, then he visists Paris,
I'm just gonna show you
Paris, then he visits Rome,
and there is like always a little- here is like pasta, or here you have love like hearts because it's from Paris,
and so that's kind of the story. So that's probably one of the first books that I really really used to love as a child.
The next book that I have here is a book that I talked about in a previous video
where my sister and I did the Two Lies and One- No [laughs]
Two Truths and One Lie challenge thing that we made up,
and it's Momo by Michael Ende. So basically the first time I encountered this story was
when my mum read this to my sister and me, then there was a tv series that we used to love,
and then back in I think 7th grade or something we had to read this for school,
which I hated, back in- because as I said, I hated novels at that age,
but then I picked this back up when I was 18, 19 and read it again and I just loved it so much.
And it's just an adorable story. It's about this girl called Momo who arrives in a small town
and she says she doesn't know how old she is and she doesn't have any parents, she's just always existed.
And she's accompanied by a tortoise and she starts living in this old ruin of kind of a theatre,
and the children love her, the adults love her. And at some point some evil men in grey arrive,
and they are- they carry grey suits, they have grey briefcases and smoke grey cigars,
and even their skin is grey. And they start talking to the adults in that town
and they're like "I'm from the-" I don't know what that's called in the English translation but bascially the
bank to save time or something. And they pretend like time is something that you can actually save like money.
And it ends up with those people who used to have kind of a relaxed lifestyle working really hard
to save time. Which obviously makes no sense at all, but they don't realise it.
And Momo in the end has to save them and has to kind of fight the grey men,
and it's just an adorable story which I think as a child it's just so imaginative so it's lovely for that,
but as I said as an adult I also I loved this when I was 18, 19. And I probably would still love this if I reread it again.
I mean obviously first of all there is my childhood nostalgia but I think it's just a really well-done story.
It's about as I said time and the importance of friendship, and kind of also a criticism of our very
productivity-based and money-based society. Kind of, I guess. So I really, really love this story.
The next thing that I really used to love which I now have two books here
but I read probably all of the books that existed at that point.
Are Hanni und Nanni which is actually a translation, sort of by books by Enid Blyton.
called I think St. Clare's, The Twins at St. Clare's or something,
but there are much more German books than there are English ones
because those were so popular in Germany that they started writing more stories about these two girls
and putting just Enid Byton on the title and then publishing it like that I think,
and apparently according to the internet these German translations are very very different from their English originals.
It kind of is set in Germany and you don't have any of those kind of English cultural references anymore,
it's all changed so that German readers kind of understand what's going on bascially.
And it's about these two twins, I don't know what they're called in the English version
but in German they're called Hanni and Nanni. I think they actually have other names
but those are the names they go by.
And they're- in the beginning they're really spoilt and they go to some kind of prestigious boarding school,
but then their parents for some reason make them go to another boarding school
and they hate it in the beginning, but then they kind of settle in and find their friends and
it's basically about that. So kind of adventures and experiences at that boarding school.
And every book is about that. And we used to have kind of a small library in my primary school,
that I think was open twice a week and I would go every time it was open and get another of these books,
because I loved them so much as a child. I probably read all of them.
And there are also- I think those were even more successful than the books, there are audio dramas
which I used to have so many cassette tapes of. I used to love listening to them, I used to love reading them,
so that was really one of my favourite things as a child.
The next book is also kind of a series that I used to love,
and for some reason I don't have the books anymore. At least I couldn't find them,
I looked everywhere and I couldn't find them although I'm at my mum's
and I thought I still had them here but I don't,
I only have kind of an extra book and that is Die Wilden Hühner which kind of translates to the wild chicks.
It's a German book series by Cornelia Funke who wrote a lot of children's books
and YA literature, so she also wrote the Inkheart series some of you may know
because I know that that has definitely been translated into English.
So this is kind of an extra book with like extra knowledge but it was the only book that I still had
so I just wanted to have something to hold up,
but it's basically a book series with five instalments and it's about these five girls
who have kind of a club and they're really, really good friends,
and they just do stuff together and they're called the wild chicks because the nan of one of the characters
has chickens so- yeah that's kind of how they call themselves.
And I used to love them as a child. It's just bascially as I said about their adventures
and the things they go through kind of growing up.
In the fifth book they kind of- they're at an age where they kind of start being interested in other people
and they kind of sort of start dating. And one of them turns out to be in love with a girl
and it was handled so well. I think. Looking back. I haven't read it as I said since I was a child,
but now looking back I really really appreciate that that even existed
in a children's book. And I think it was handled really well.
I think one of the characters did not like that she was in love with a girl and they kind of didn't talk for a while,
but then kind of the moral of the story was
that you shouldn't have prejudices towards people who are different than you.
And they made up in the end. So I really used to love these books.
The next two books that I have are also from a series that I used to love so much,
and they're Molly Moon. They're also a translation by Georgia Byng. I don't know how you pronounce her name
I think it's Georgia Byng. And they have these really annoying reflection things.
Dust jackets.
I think actually that my mum read the first book to my sister and me,
I think this was probably one of the last books she ever read to us.
And then this is the sequel, and I think there were even more sequels.
I know that there was third book which I didn't like at all but I started reading it and I didn't get it
and I stopped reading it after a couple of pages. I think there are five books by now if not even more,
but basically those are about a girl called Molly Moon.
And she grows up in this extremely miserable orphanage somehwere in England.
And her name is Molly Moon because she was left at the doorstep with some food or a tag or something
from a bakery called Moon, Moon's cinnamon rolls or something.
I don't even remember. But that's how she got her name.
And she ends up in this terrible orphanage where all the children lead a very horrible life,
and then one day she goes to the town's library and she finds a book on hypnosis.
And she starts reading it and it sounds very interesting to her and she realises that she's quite talented.
And that she can actually hypnotise people very very easily.
And she kind of uses that skill in order to get out of her terrible situation.
The second book came out and I also loved that. There was a huge plot twist at the end,
and I was just like so shocked. That was probably the first huge plot twist that I ever encountered in my reading life.
And also in that book you kind of find out that some people are able to kind of stop the time through hypnosis.
Which was already a bit absurd but I still liked it,
and then in the third book I know that they managed to kind of timetravel with hypnosis,
and it was just confusing and I didn't like it so I stopped reading the series at that point,
but I really loved these two books. I keep them very dearly in my heart,
and I might reread them one day because they were so much fun reading as a child.
I've got two more books left. They're not actually novels but I used to love them so much,
and they're Greek myths for children. So there are two versions, and this is kind of the most exciting
or most thrilling Greek myths, and this is just the nicest or best or whatever Greek myths.
And you have little illustrations, and it's just really really cute I used to love them so much,
I don't know how often I read these.
Also when I was I think in year 4 of primary school we had kind of a contest of reading out loud
and who could do that the best, and I read the story about the sphinx. So there are a lot of parts in here
that are like underlined or something. So apparently I wanted to put emphasis on that when I read it,
and it's just really cute to have this kind of and remember being in the situation of reading the story
out to people. And all of the adults sitting there being like "oh this is kind of cruel why are you reading this?"
but yeah, I used to love this so much as a child and I'm really happy I still have these books.
So these were the books that I wanted to talk about for today.
I hope this was remotely interesting to you, I know that a lot of these are German books,
but I used to love all of that and I had a lot of fun talking about this actually
I was getting a bit nostalgic but it was nice. So I would like to hear what your favourite book was as a child.
I don't- It doesn't matter where you're from, just put it in the description and I'm gonna google it
if I don't know it. But yeah, thank you very much for watching and I will see you in my next video. Bye!
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