What better gift can we give the children of our community than the love
of reading?
Reading research has shown that reading just 30 minutes a day with or to a child significantly increases that child's reading ability.
Join us in that mission.
Book'em is a non-profit children's literacy organization in Nashville, Tennessee. We believe that given an early start, children learn not just to read, but to love reading. Learn more about Book'em - click here.
Join us on Facebook at
facebook.com/bookemkids . 
Who receives our books?
We were able to give books to students who have a difficult time getting to the public library. Most of our students do not have books of their own.
Shannon Woodroof
Glengarry Elementary
Most all of my students have very few books at home. They cherish these books so that they often keep them in their backpacks as they tell me they are afraid something might happen to them if they stay at home, so they haul them back and forth and read and reread them during free times at school.
Third Grade Teacher
Carter-Lawrence Elementary
Many of the children I serve have never had their own book. ..... they have no books of their own. The experience of giving them a new book to keep “forever and ever” is a highlight. After choosing a book that was below her reading level, one student said to me “I picked this book so I will have something to read to my little sister.”
Jennifer Thomas
Wharton School
We need books
We especially need infant/board books through fourth grade chapter books.
Please consider sponsoring a book drive through your neighborhood, congregation, work site, etc. Here are details on conducting a bookdrive.
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Coming Events:
Sept. 7 - New Volunteer Training & Orientation. Two identical sessions from 12:00-1:00pm and from 5:00-6:00pm. Email Martha Ann Pilcher for more information. Or call 255-1820.
Sept. 19 - First Night Nashville Theatre Honors, at The Troutt Theatre at Belmont University,
which benefits Book'em. Come out to thank the leaders in Nashville Theatre. Check them out on Facebook.
Oct. 21 - Music, Food & Fun at the ICON. A fundraiser to benefit Book'em. Look for more details to come.
Check out the details at Events.
"The road to academic success begins early, which is why early childhood learning and reading are so important. When we read to our kids, it helps them become better readers and develop a love of reading on their own.”
US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan |
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