Rishi I am talking about little children's books here. Nick Carter or Harold Robbins aren't exactly meant for the tiny tots!
I remember as a kid I preferred books with a lot of pictures in it. So I had a lot of those ladybird books...the little bunnikins and the downy duckling etc.
One more publication I really liked was the Vostok .. This publication disappeared with the fall of the Soviet Union. Their main job was soviet propaganda.... free of cost, but still they used to have quite a lot of excellent children's books...or rather books pertaining to all subjects. These books was part of the strategy and they worked as a camouflage so that their mission of spreading Soviet propaganda becomes less obvious.
But for me...I really loved their books..and I think some of their writers and illustrators were so talented! I think the Western kids really were deprived of these fantastic books!
I really enjoyed one particular red cloth bound book by Vladimir Sutayev...I really miss such books!