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Meet Booker, the GELF Owl Mascot

Meet Booker, the GELF Owl Mascot

Dear Governor's Early Literacy Foundation Friends,  My name is Booker, and I am Governor's Early Literacy Foundation's mascot and favorite owl friend. Thank you so much for helping me find my name. I love the name Booker because I love books and...

Calling All Children in Tennessee: Help Us Name Our Owl

Calling All Children in Tennessee: Help Us Name Our Owl

WHAT IS MY NAME? Help Us Name Our Owl We need your help naming the Governor's Early Literacy Foundation (GELF) mascot! Make a video of your little ones telling us what the name of our owl should be and why--- OR-- Post a photo with your child displaying the...

Celebrating 15 Years of Early Literacy

Celebrating 15 Years of Early Literacy

Literacy looks like books.Books look like the Imagination Library.Governor's Books from Birth Foundation and TN's Imagination Library look like early literacy. This month marks the 15th anniversary of Governor's Books from Birth Foundation (GBBF). This milestone gives...

Celebrate Tennessee’s Early Literacy Month: September 2019!

Celebrate Tennessee’s Early Literacy Month: September 2019!

TN's Early Literacy Month Celebrating efforts to strengthen early literacy in Tennessee We are excited to celebrate the first annual Tennessee's Early Literacy Month! Join us in September as we highlight the early literacy efforts in Tennessee and spread the word...

Celebrating 15 Years and 35+ Million Books

Celebrating 15 Years and 35+ Million Books

Literacy looks like books.Books look like the Imagination Library.Governor's Books from Birth Foundation and TN's Imagination Library look like... As we celebrate the 15th anniversary of Governor’s Books from Birth Foundation (GBBF), we also celebrate 15 years of...

Healthy Smiles and Early Reading

Healthy Smiles and Early Reading

This week is Delta Dental of Tennessee's Smile Power Week! Governor's Books from Birth Foundation's partner, Delta Dental of Tennessee, acknowledges the connection of books to health literacy and dental health. “An educated society is a healthy society,” said Dr....

Counties Celebrate Imagination Library Week

Counties Celebrate Imagination Library Week

Counties throughout Tennessee celebrated Imagination Library Week in a variety of fun ways!  Book it to the Bridge! Imagination Library Parade & Celebration (Carter County) In partnership with Carter County Drug Prevention Coalition and Elizabethton/Carter...

Celebrating Delta Dental of TN’s Smile Power Week

Celebrating Delta Dental of TN’s Smile Power Week

On June 14, First Lady Crissy Haslam helped celebrate Delta Dental of Tennessee’s Smile Power Week by reading with children at Nashville Public Library’s Looby Branch about the importance of oral health. After being introduced by Delta Dental of...