Do you remember the first book you bought for yourself? Or the first book you checked out of the library? What was it and why did you choose it?
A Horse Named Mayonnaise by Joanne Chitwood Nowack. I picked it because I could read the dust jacket and for the picture of a horse on front and a girl in a pink-and blue plaid shirt. The back sounded interesting enough and I was horse-crazy when I’d been browsing, so a ‘horse’ book was exactly what I was looking for. I have read that book dozens of times since and the pleasure of being able to read a book I liked whenever I pleased was the first step in my new addiction–to this day, I prefer to buy books rather than borrow them from friends or the library.
