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My Favorite Book (Sculptor's Daughter by Tove Jansson) [In titles always capitalize the first, last, and all important words. Do not capitalize a, an, of, the, to, in, etc. Here is a website that will properly capitalize a title you paste in: 'https://capitalizemytitle.com'.]
It was a tough choice: except for Jansson's books I'm in love with Harry Potter. I read the Harry Potter books during all 2018 and they gave me so much warmness! Just imaging: you're sitting on a beach, the sky is overcast, and a gentle breeze is slightly moving your hair. You can view a peaceful line[horizon?] of the sea, grey and warm, and there is nothing between you and a magic pictured by your imagination. Dragons and spells, magical adventures...
But my very first book in childhood was the book by Tove Jansson. These are her stories I read while I was* exhausted and wanted a rest. Her stories are perfect for sitting with a cup of chocolate milk on an armchair in a chilly autumn evening. I feel a touch of calm wisdom reading Tove's texts.
The book called "Sculptor's Daughter" contains a number of short autobiography stories from Tove's childhood. Her parents were people of art: her father was a sculptor; her mother was an illustrator, so their life wasn't usual. They had an art studio in the city and a cozy house near the sea, where they lived every summer. Tove had a unique vision of routine reality; we can see it clearly in her memories.
When I was a child, a big part of my family lived in Krasnoyarskyi Krai and I spent every summer there in my grandma’s house. Wild and stern Siberian landscapes with taiga and furious waters of the river Angara are always in my heart. Reading Tove reminds me about that. It’s like coming to grandma’s home again. The first time I'd read Moomitrolles was in a cold Siberian summer. I was sitting on a floor near a/the furnace trying to get warm, and my grandpa came to put in another stack of wood. Mysterious characters of Tove were playing their own games, making adventures; I was the one little girl on a whole street, so the book characters were my only company.
Tove was an amazing woman lived an amazing life. She’s the person I was always inspired of. In the twentieth century all the books about imaginary creatures were labeled like “children books” but Tove’s books aren't for children only. My belief is that every person of every age can find in them something special.
[* Was is needed here to match the past tense of "wanted"..]
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