My earliest reading memory
Whose Mouse Are You? by Robert Kraus. A picture book telling the story of an abandoned mouse who has lost his family in an assortment of harrowing incidents and needs to mouse up and bring them all home. I was pretty young when I read it but I learned something important: sometimes you have to fix mistakes you didn’t make.
The book that changed me as a teenager
Scientific Progress Goes Boink, a collection of Calvin and Hobbes comic strips by Bill Watterson. Hobbes the tiger is six-year-old Calvin’s sidekick and partner in crime. He is absolutely my spirit animal: usually up for an adventure, occasionally adding a note of caution, always focused on what snacks he might need. If I could own any piece of art, it would be a strip from Calvin and Hobbes.
