Shaun Tan asks, why do you read? / Shaun Tan -- A feverish desire to possess / Randa Abdel-Fattah -- Twelve reasons / Markus Zusak -- A short leap / Cathy Cassidy -- "What happens next?" / Will Kostakis -- The great sense of unease / Mandy Hager -- Hooked (and a bit unsettled) / Shaun Tan -- Thwack! / Fiona Wood -- Becoming human / Bernard Beckett -- Looking where I'm standing / Felicity Castagna -- This world is more than what can be seen / Ambelin Kwaymullina -- What the doctor recommended / Queenie Chan -- Of magic and memory / Kate Constable -- The big Scooby-Doo reveal / Rachael Craw -- Sweet dreams and social fails / Simmone Howell -- Every disgusting detail / Benjamin Law -- Challenging the machinations of racism / Jared Thomas -- Invested with enchantment / Alison Croggon -- It looks like a comic / Mal Peet -- My first reader / Ursula Dubosarsky -- In folded arms / Cath Crowley -- What would Edith do? / Emily Maguire -- Putting the world to rights / Catherine Mayo -- Beyond the influence / Ted Dawe -- A sense of resolution / Simon French -- Only white people lived in books / Catherine Johnson -- Set my senses alight / Sue Lawson -- Happy endings / Brigid Lowry -- You'll go blind: a cautionary tale about the power of reading / Julia Lawrinson -- Ingenious decisions / Sue McPherson -- James remembering / James Roy -- Seeing red / Jaclyn Moriarty.