📝 First Impressions The Smurfs were part of my childhood long before I ever picked up one of their comic books. I first discovered them on Romanian television in the early 1990s, and I loved them. That little blue community…
📝 First Impressions The Witches is probably one of the Roald Dahl books that best demonstrates just how dark children’s fiction can become without losing its sense of fun. The premise is wonderfully disturbing: witches are real, they live among…
📝 First Impressions I have always had a soft spot for Roald Dahl’s books. There is something immediately recognisable about the way he tells a story: mischievous, slightly rebellious, sometimes surprisingly dark, but always written with an understanding of how…
📝 First Impressions What stayed with me most about The Distance Between Me and the Cherry Tree was not a particular scene, but Mafalda’s fear. She is still a child, yet she already knows that her world is gradually becoming…
