I was thrilled when I opened my email today and saw this: Reader-in-Chief: Read-aloud tips from President Obama. Anyone who reads my blog regularly knows that my passion is reading and sharing books with kids and teens. Seeing the President of the United States reading, enthusiastically, to children is an amazing sight. Hopefully, he will inspire parents and teachers to carve some time out of their day to share a book with their children.
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