Books I read during childhood

I was talking on skype with Siew Poh yesterday night and she was telling me how she's working on a project and her client is Lat, the comic writer for Kampung Boy. Kampung Boy was like one of my favorite book back then, I read it over and over and in fact, I read most of them multiple times because my parents didn't think book was such a good investment I guess. I had bought probably say 10-15 books throughout my primary school life and that was it. Come to think of it, I used to enjoy reading a lot. Most of my books were rather lengthy for children's book, especially chinese novels which had really small (size 8 to 10 is small) font and lots of words. I remember one of my favorite few ones were like Mulan and Snow White (translated into Chinese novel, really old book inherited from cousin), and another one is the Little Nicholas translated into Chinese - 小淘气尼古拉, or in its French name, Le Petit Nicholas (found that in Wikipedia). It was one of my favorite and I read it like at least 10 times even though it was freaking long. The stories was mostly entertaining because 尼古拉 and his friends always did some naughty stuff. Or some really naive and stupid things like he wanna marry his neighbor's daughter. Strangely though, I totally forgot about this story book among all the others that I've read until today. Then when I got up to Standard 4, I started reading those lovey dovey novels and comics and eventually I stopped reading storybooks at all. Now that I think of it, I probably didn't hate Chinese the language so much as I thought I used to. I probably just avoided it because I never did well in it because I read so much Chinese books compared to English ones.

And now I'm suddenly craving for children's books to read. Just to reminisce my childhood before I came out of my shell.. Damn I love those books x) so, anyone who's read 小淘气尼古拉 before?