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If you've never read Roald Dahl's the Witches, it's one of his finest works!
Other authors...I agree on Le Petit Nicolas, though the style is not the same, less whimsical, and more funny stories of a seemingly real little boy's life.
Also I really enjoyed C.S. Lewis' The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, though it's not quite the same...what can I say.
Judy Blume is a good author for topics like relationships and feelings, one of my favourites (but I'm a girl) is "Are you there God? It's me, Margaret".
I have to say that from the age of 10 when I first read a Roald Dahl book I was hooked, and having read pretty much everything by him, I have never found any other children's author as great. Sorry to disappoint.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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