JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — For the first time, Jacksonville Mayor Donna Deegan brought her River City Readers Bookmobile on Friday morning to the North Florida School of Special Education.
The mobile library is part of her citywide literacy initiative, aimed at improving reading skills and making books accessible to every family in Jacksonville. Students eagerly climbed aboard to pick out books of their own after Deegan finished reading to them.
“We want every child in Jacksonville to have that experience,” Deegan said. “If they fall in love with reading, it increases their vocabulary, it makes them more likely to succeed in life – and that’s how we build productive citizens.”…