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It's our job - as parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles - to find books our kids are going to like.

If you're not a parent, if you're an aunt or uncle or neighbor, books are an amazing gift.

My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.

Books were in my family - books were my family.

I basically don't do that well with children, although my sister says I'm a great aunt.

My father died when I was quite small, so my uncle used to buy me books and read them to me.

Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and I had a library card when we could pass off something as a signature, and all of us would come with an armful of books.

Seeing that we were book enthusiasts, my mother began hauling my sister and me down to the Stanton Free Library on Tuesday afternoons, where I'd find two or three books to bring home.

I collect books - a lot of books.

I love to get books, because I love to read.