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The Star profiles Penguin Canada publisher Nicole Winstanley.

Winstanley has always been the girl who loved books. She was an only child who longed at day’s end to find a place under her mother’s or father’s arm and to read The Little Prince or Alligator Pie. When she grew up she kept her hardcover copy of Little House on the Prairie, which she had also used to press leaves. After graduating from the University of Western Ontario and working in her first adult job, she read a book a day – by this time she was devouring Barbara Gowdy’s novels – during lunch breaks and on the commute between her parents’ Stouffville home and a downtown office. She loved what many great readers love – losing oneself in another world and another person.