I'll gladly correct your English henceforward if you like - though I think it's very, very good already. Do you know an easy way to switch over a keyboard to Russian alphabet so I can try to stammer out a few things in Russian? (It would be back to 'this bridge, this house, this Moscow State University' to start with, I'm afraid.)
Goody-goody heroes are not nearly as popular these days as they used to be. The classic model was 'Little Lord Fauntleroy', by Frances Hodgson Burnett (author of 'The Secret Garden' and 'A Little Princess', both of which your daughter might enjoy). He is 'horribly good' and his name became an insult among children for centuries. Even more repulsive apparently, though I haven't read it, was 'Eric, or Little By Little', by Dean Farrar. The reacion against that kind of syrupy goodness gave us characters like William Brown and Nigel Molesworth. By the way, your daughter might enjoy the William books (by Richmal Crompton), if she isn't put off by the pre-WW2 English background. I wouldn't give her Molesworth, though, until she's pretty secure about English spelling. The Molesworth books ('Down with Skool', etc.), by Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle, are hilariously funny, but Molesworth cant spel for toffe and you cant believe everything he sa chiz.
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Goody-goody heroes are not nearly as popular these days as they used to be. The classic model was 'Little Lord Fauntleroy', by Frances Hodgson Burnett (author of 'The Secret Garden' and 'A Little Princess', both of which your daughter might enjoy). He is 'horribly good' and his name became an insult among children for centuries. Even more repulsive apparently, though I haven't read it, was 'Eric, or Little By Little', by Dean Farrar. The reacion against that kind of syrupy goodness gave us characters like William Brown and Nigel Molesworth. By the way, your daughter might enjoy the William books (by Richmal Crompton), if she isn't put off by the pre-WW2 English background. I wouldn't give her Molesworth, though, until she's pretty secure about English spelling. The Molesworth books ('Down with Skool', etc.), by Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle, are hilariously funny, but Molesworth cant spel for toffe and you cant believe everything he sa chiz.