Saying No To Illiteracy

"Ssseee mmmeee reeead," said Mayor Asher Ply Wood. It looks like Ply Wood is well on his way from being an illiterate mayor to a reading mayor.

Months ago Ply Wood would look at letters asking what they were and how they sound. This was a result of many years that he was read to. "Learning to read is one of the greatest things in the whole world," said Ply Wood. Main House First Lady Mom did most of the reading for him. She has a new excitement for the mayor. "This desire to read will free him!" said Mom. "He will have a new activity that will improve his thinking, I will do everything I can do to help him.

Mom leads daily lessons with Ply Wood. Most of the time he does summersaults during the lessons. Mom isn't worried though since that's how Nathaniel Barn Loft learned to read.

Ply Wood will join fellow citizens who started reading years before him. Sarah Daffodil, a reader since 1999, can't put a book down. Barn Loft, a reader since 2002, recently read "Where the Red Fern Grows" in one day.