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My mother reads a lot, my father doesn't but they both encouraged me to read. Until I was about 10 I mostly read comicbooks, I later learned that this worried my mother.
My grandmother also encourage her grandchildren to read but she always wanted us to read "proper" and "educational" children's literature (all the games she had were also educational or good for memory training) and I wasn't really interested in those.
I live in the city centre of a big city, not many children of my age lived there plus there were no safe playgrounds around and at the time there was both a junkie and a biker problem so playing outside wasn't possible. The library was close by so I went at least one every week to get new books.
When I was about 14 I started reading English books, my favorite genre still is horror and I remember that the librarians tried to disuade me from lending Stephen King books. My grandmother didn't know how to react: I wasn't reading "proper" books, but I was reading them in English and the books were really long (It, The Stand, etc).
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