Wow a door-to-door encyclopedia salesman - almost as rare as a buyer who actually reads the entire encyclopedia set!! That is super impressive. I hope my daughter is as equally inspired to read by The Cat In the Hat :) She definitely loves all the Dr. Seuss and P.D. Eastman books.

I for one have a love hate relationship with reading.. I didn't really get into it until I discovered comic books, specifically the BONE series. I bought them all!! But the thing that really actually got me into books without pictures was the movie Jurassic Park. I remember seeing it in 3rd grade, and I loved it so much that I read the book - then I ate through all of Crichton's books that we had in the school library. That led me to the His Dark Materials' trilogy, and then I became a bit more open minded over the years with other books. But generally speaking I don't read nearly as much as I should. Not enough time these days!