just the other day i was having a chat to my sister about children books we love, and look what i found at flickr today! 'debbie learns to dance' by marcel marlier is one of my fave books when i was a kid. i think i still keep that book back home in jakarta - we have the indonesian translation version and it's called 'tini belajar balet'. although the book cover is already torn and there are some marks here and there, i still love this book! what's your fave book(s) when you were kids?
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Yes, me too. I really liked that book, Tini belajar balet. I still keep that book at my home as well.
Thats adorable. I posted about my favourite books a few months back, I wonder if you know Enid Blyton's 'The Magic Faraway Tree'?
Btw I remember those Debbie/Tini books from when I was young too, except I hated reading in Indonesian when I was younger. Seemed too awkward to be a fun book for me...
waaaaaaaa, this is my favorite book when i was a kid too. my little sister borrowed it once and she ruined the book, spilled a drink on it. I was really, really mad. apparently, she remembered how disappointed i was, so a few years later she bought a new copy for my bday.
i wonder if i still have the original, i gotta look for it.
i have that book still from when i was little and i loved it. I have put it on my daughters book shelf now...
In France it wasn't Debbie but Martine!
And my favorite books were "Boucle d'or et les 3 ours". The story of a young girl with blond hair who finds a house in the forest and then, appear the family bear! And there was "Ernest et Celestine ont perdu Siméon" (transl. Ernest and Celestine looses Siméon), about a little mouse who lost her toy Siméon in the snow, so her dad helps her to find it!
oh my goodness! i cannot believe you found this book - i completely forgot about it! it was my favourite book growing up in cape town, south africa - i remember pouring over it and trying to follow all the moves. you have just bought back so many memories ;-)
Oh my god!!
This was one of my favourite books as a child, the illustrations are to die for.
There was another once called Debbie's Birthday Party or something of the sort. I still have them at my father's house.
I absolutely loved Peter Pan illustrated by Eric Kincaid
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and the faraway tree series!!
oh, these illustrations are gorgeous! I've seen these images online before, but didn't know there was an Indonesian translation. It's so cute that "Debbie" becomes "Tini"... such an old school Indonesian name, isn't it? hehe :) I remember reading a lot of Smurf books (not the comic books).
I know this post is very old but I can't resist commenting anyway. How funny that everyone remembers this little book! I had it too, and I remember really liking the fact that she didn't care if she never became a star- she just wanted to work hard enough to "become a useful dancer". What a funny little phrase! It stayed with me because, like Debbie, I just wanted to be involved with ballet in anyway I could too, star or not.... aww good memories.
Be it Martine, Debbie, Marit, Anita... for me she's always be si Tini, so I glad I stumbled to this post and found fellow tini book-lovers. I was just looking for pictures of Tini (by the fact I only recently found out that at first she was Martine)
I think my mom kept my books stashed somewhere in the attics (near zero chance to be found again). I once even go thrift hunting for tini books, found one and such a shame it was in very bad shape....
Thanks for sharing
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