My sister turned me into a fantasy junkie before I even started elementary school. She would read me bedtime stories from Andrew Lang's fairy books and read me expurgated versions of comic books (mainly X-Men and Amethyst, Princess of the Gemworld). By the time she read me Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones, I was completely hooked. During elementary school, I read all the Diana Wynne Jones I could find as well as Robin McKinley, Patricia McKillip, Madeleine L'Engle (only her science fiction), and Anne McCaffrey.