The subject of the book from the VG Bookshelf this week is literacy. I am not reviewing the book “Why Johnny Can’t Read”. I am issuing a clarion call for parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and anyone else who wants an educated populace in the United States of America. Of the famous three “R’s”, reading, ‘riting and ‘rithmatic, reading is first because everything else flows from reading. If a child cannot read, that child is doomed to intellectual slavery.