The storied North Idaho College wrestling program has hit a number of milestones in its 43-year history, including 13 national championships. But one achievement away from the mat has coach Pat Whitcomb almost as excited as if his team won another title: Wednesday morning his wrestling team handed out its 10,000th book to a Coeur d’Alene first-grader. The program was launched in 2000 and later named in honor of Shirley Parker, the late wife of Parker Toyota founder Doug Parker. A supporter of NIC wrestling and of reading, she died in 2002. The goal is to give each first-grader in the Coeur d’Alene School District a book. To achieve that, NIC wrestlers go to all 10 Coeur d’Alene elementary schools each year, staggering the visits throughout the school year. The team’s final visit was to Sorensen Elementary on Wednesday/Greg Lee, SR. More here. (Jesse Tinsley SR photo: Sorensen first-grader Haven Engle reads along in the book “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie”)

Question: Which book impacted you most as a youth?