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"...From Bill Cameron's beautiful reflection on his early love for The Wind In The Willows to Jane Urquhart's thoughts on the importance of L.M. Montgomery's Emily books to a budding young author; from Peter Gzowski's thrill of recognition in the pages of Catcher In The Rye to the youthful longings that drove Sheila McCarthy to the popular Cherry Ames series: from Tim Wynne-Jones' wry memories of the moment the Hardy Boys let him down to Robert Bateman's early discovery of his vocation through the works of Ernest Thompson Seton: Everybody's Favourites shows us the extraordinary influence and exhilaration of early reading experiences."--