My kids don’t really believe me—because I’m now such a nutcase about books and reading—but when I was a child, I actually read very little. Well, that’s not entirely true. I would avoid reading books—even when assigned in school—but I read all the comics I could get my grubby hands on. I read comics voraciously, and despite reading very few “real books” in my youth, the obsession I had with comics helped fuel my language development and my love of