User blog comment:LordTBT/News:RIP Brian Jacques, 1939-2011/@comment-68.2.30.208-20110209235818

Before second grade, I wasn't much of a reader. I remember skipping over pages in assigned reading books, not even really reading. Before a trip to Virginia, my Mom had read to me a part of a book called Redwall- I loved it immediately. I didn't bring it, but Mom had brought Mossflower along. Thinking she would want me to read it, I did. It quickly became my favorite book, Brian Jaques became my favorite author, and I became utterly obsessed with books and reading. Now, it's my dream to become an author, like him. If it weren't for him and his writing, I'd probably be a completely different person today.

Thank you, Brian Jaques.
-The ARBL