PBS taught my sister and me to read long by preschool. For many years it was the only channel I watched.

My aunt worked for a major publisher in the city and sent me a book every year as a child. In a strange twist of fate, I now have a corporate discount to a publisher in the city (part of the same parent company), and this year for the first time I was able to pass on my aunt’s gift to me to another child.

And let’s not forget Square One.