Do you want to remember how beautiful the world seemed when you were younger? Read this book.

There I was, bored yet too tired to have my eyes focus on something in particular, when I was reminded of this story that I loved so dearly as a child from watching the anime. I haven't read many children's books in my life as I wasn't an avid reader at all until later in life, so I'm a bit wary of reading books whose target audience I'm not technically included in, so I decided to listen to this one on audiobook, which was narrated by Teresa Gallagher, and boy am I glad I did.

Not only was Gallagher's narration wonderful and captivating, but the story really hit me on my nostalgic nerve and I miss the summers I spent in Greece as a child (I watched the anime whenever I was in Greece, which is why I made that connection). I think children's stories can be so delightful to read when you have a certain history with them, which sadly I don't have with a lot of stories, so this one really made me feel content and warm as I lied there watching the world outside my window grow darker. Forgive my most likely different than usual way of reviewing a book, but the style the translation was written in is stuck in my head.

I'll finish this off the same way I started it: do you want to remember how beautiful the world seemed when you were younger? Read this book.