there's something so funny about 10 people in a row reblogging this saying they're from India and loved them as a kid, and then one person from India reblogging with a rant about westerners assuming their experiences are universal and "of course i dont know them"

American and they live on the shelves of French classrooms

American, read them ‘cause my dad (from New Zealand) gave them to me. Also read some that were in a family friend’s house (also in New Zealand). I was getting them from the local library, so I assume other people were reading them too.

American, absolutely no idea what that is

American (grew up in the DC area), they were around a lot of places

Canadian, saw them once or twice in school libraries and similar, never actually read.

Have a decent understanding of them via cultural osmosis, but my elder sister had never heard of them as of last month, so that's probably a 'spending my childhood online' thing.