What was the first book to make an impression on you? My Ma started reading to me long before I can remember, so I can’t recall a first book. Where the Wild Things Are made an early impression, though. I remember being simultaneously shocked and intrigued by Max’s rebeliousness. It’s a great ode to the almost Nietchzean will-to-power kids can have at that age. I found it thrilling in its rejection of authority – a theme I grasped wholeheartedly later in life. What was your favourite book as a child? An uncle gave me a collection of Tim Hunkin’s cartoons from the Observer (Almost Everything There is to Know). The cartoons are all little informative snippets on different subjects, collections...
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