Stephen Colbert's First Book

No Fact Zone points us this morning to FirstBook.org, a website that invites both celebrities and regular folks to write in about the book that made them love reading. I'm looking forward to writing my own submission just as soon as I read my first book. Any day now; I can feel it. Until then, here's Stephen Colbert's:

STEPHEN COLBERT

Host and Writer, The Colbert Report

Swiss Family Robinson

The first chapter book I remember reading by myself was Swiss Family Robinson. It had it all – a shipwreck, a tropical paradise, a treehouse, pirates, home made bombs, a tiger pit, and the enviable freedom of those three Robinson boys who were seemingly on permanent Summer vacation. Oh! Plus, later they find this girl who they don't know is a girl because her grandfather has dressed her up as a boy so the pirates won't know, and the boys treat her like another boy until they find out she's a girl, and she's really pretty, and the older brothers fight over her, and they have to hold her hand and stuff to help her over rivers, and that seemed cool to me.

Here are entries from other funny people:

BJ Novak
John Hodgman
John Krasinski
Dave Eggers
Harry Shearer
Neil Patrick Harris