Mychal Threets

You know what?

You're not going to be able to see it because my camera is blurred, but I have a full tattoo sleeve of my favorite books.

So I love Where the Wild Things Are.

I'm a big fan of Richard Scarry, Richard Scarry books, Strike a Nona, Frog and Toad.

But one of my favorite books is Bud Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis.

It's because that was the first book where I saw myself look like a character in the books.

I think I got my first book tattoo when I was 24.

So it's been almost 12 years.

The first one was, that is a good question, it was actually, it was either Where the Wild Things Are or I Have a Library Card of Arthur Reed from PBS Tattooed on Me.

You know what he really did?

I think because I showed him my, like, at the time I had close to 40 library cards.

I just brought in my library card collection.

And he was like, okay, you're all about it.

That's okay.

It's all right.

Mr. Ratburn, let the meat taste it.

I got my library card at that same library as a kid.

Excuse me, I became a shelver.

I went to college, got my bachelor's degree, got my master's degree, became a children's librarian, and then a marketing librarian, and then I eventually became the supervising librarian at that same thing.

Oh, yeah.