My husband was always the creative one and one day while saying "Bye" to the kids as they lift for school, my daughter replied, "See you later, alligator!"

My husband quickly replied back as he opened the door for her, "After while, crocodile!"

She quickly snapped back with, "Real Soon, Raccoon!"

After she left he began to think about her cute little quip. By the next morning he had his come back for her last remark, "So Long, King Kong!"

And his first book was born, C. U. Later, the Alligator was born.

Today after several books later, I decide that his great little stories and stories from other children's authors need to be more available to children in need of better reading habits and skills. We determined that the best way to improve reading skills is to read as much as one has available to them. Knowing that the younger you start and the more you read, the better educated one becomes in the future.

So we created FREE Books 4 Kids, Inc. a non-profit organization with the intent of distributing as many children's books as we can through our nation's schools to improve the reading skills of our children across the country.

Joan Snyder