as well. The more books a parent provides and exposes the child to reading the more they are going to benefit from wanting to read the next book and so on. Their is many ways to read now a days instead of a paper back book. Children can become lazy and have a computer read them a book with digital images creating them to rather look at the pretty images and colors of the screen instead of the actual words. It has been said “ a child who is raised in a home containing at least 500 books is 36 percent more likely to graduate from high school and 19 percent more likely to graduate from college than an otherwise similar child raised in a home containing few or no books.”(2) Not only is the child being influenced by the parent after they are born