ms. whitehead so i could give to other children what she gave me. ms.lle elementary school librarian who made sure i read helen gannon it's my father's dragon and eleanor cameron's wonderful flight to theo mushroom planet thank you tracy hired me too work at the yorktown alley bookstore in tulsa, oklahoma. craig who brought me to the seattle public library from tulsa by creating a job for me that required me too do what i loved and didin best, talking about books in the pleasures of reading and not having to do anything i was not good at which was basically everything else. craig gave me the time, space and encouragement to create if all of seattle read the same book program which is grown throughout the world into all of those one city, one book projects. gary luke, then an editor at sasquatch books here in seattle who called meet one day and asked me too write a book about good books to read and named it book lust. mark palo who used me as a model for the librarian action figure thus immortalizing me and what i'm pretty sure non- biodegradable plastic