Does "still a child was 'Pickwick Papers'"in the following makes sense?

I remember one dreadful famine winter the thing that kept me laughing and still a child was "Pickwick Papers". by Pearl S Buch

Ms. Worth2013-07-18T02:16:50Z

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Yes, the sentence makes sense

"I remember one dreadful famine winter the thing that (kept me laughing and still a child) was 'Pickwick Papers' "
~ a quote by Pearl S Buck
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_S._Buck

Something kept the author (Pearl S Buck)
> laughing
> and still a child at heart
during a horrible famine.
That "something" was reading "Pickwick Papers" (written by Charles Dickens)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pickwick_Papers