What you teach your children forms their lives. We were surrounded by books growing up. I remember trying to read my first novel about sailors and boat operators on the Volga River in Russia. It was a complete mystery to me, coming from a village in the Eastern Cape trying to imagine this vast river. My parents owned a store and as my father was the Eastern Cape editor of the New Age, a left-wing newspaper, we not only sold it but read it. We worked in the shop, which I liked, but when my mother would call us to help in the garden I didn’t enjoy that as much.