I'm Jacob Miller a junior Education major at Houston Baptist University. My goal through this blog is to give insight and introduce children's books to all of those seeking them. As the title says, reading should be for fun and not just to get an assignment done, this mentality needs to be instilled whiting the younger generations and our young students.

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