My Heartfelt Passion: Saving Our Nation One Child at a Time : Strategic Book Publishing : 9781946540256 : 1946540250 : 21 Nov 2017 : In modern American society, the child who grows up without learning to read does not have a prayer when it comes to achieving true success in life. Unfortunately, this is the case for several million of our nation's children. According to an April 2017 study by the U.S. Department of Education and the National Institute of Literacy, 32 million adults in the U.S. can't read. Part of the reason is that 61% of low-income families have no books at all in the home for their pre-school children to read, a crucial time when reading development takes place. There is hope, and it can be found in My Heartfelt Passion: Saving our Nation one Child at a Time, written by Jim Davidson, nationally syndicated columnist who founded a unique literacy project called "Bookcase for Every Child" in his home town of Conway, Arkansas. This project has now spread to five other