Giving New Books to Kids and Families that Need Books
We have given away 100,000 books since 2015
Book Book Go
Book Bus Visits
- December: 889 books
- November: 150 books
- October: 150 books
- September: 5,515 books
- August: 1,330 books
- July: 6,606 books
- June: 1,526 books
- May 1,580 books
- April 566 books
- March 1,090 books
December 2, 2021
235 – Paul Laurence Dunbar Elementary School in East St. Louis, Illinois
December 12, 2021
150 – Gateway 180 Homeless Services and Little Legacies Library Project and AKA Sorority Literacy Project
December 14, 2021
85 – Humboldt School SLPS
December 21, 2021
184 – Sycamore Hills Apartments Desoto, MO (Horizon Housing Foundation)
December 20, 2021
85 – Arch Community Elementary School
December 22, 2021
150 – St. Louis City Fire Department – Community Holiday Party
November 3, 2021
150 – Herbert Hoover Boys and Girls Club, Ferguson MO
October 22, 2021
150 – Meachum Park Neighborhood Association/Horizons In Kirkwood- Halloween Party
September 1, 2021
155 – Spark Steam Early Learning Academy
September 9, 2021
2500 – East St. Louis Public Library Bookmobile
September 10, 2021
315 – Sacred Heart Villa School
September 14, 2021
45 – Lemay Manor Apartments/Horizon Housing Foundation
September 24, 2021
2500 – East St. Louis Public Library Bookmobile
August 7, 2021
400 – Saint Louis Public Schools – Back To School Streetfest Event at Gateway Elementary
225 – Bicentennial ArtFest and Ice Cream Social/ Celebration for Newly Proposed Hodiamont Tracks Bike Trail/Great Rivers Greenway/SLACO/St Louis Arts Chamber of Commerce
August 12, 2021
350 – Horizon Housing Foundation/Sycamore Hills Townhouses/ Back-to-School Celebration/Desoto, MO
August 19, 2021
330 – WAY Center/Back to School Event at Ritenour School District, Wyland Elementary
August 21, 2021
25 – Village of Mom’s – Back to School Event
July 1, 2021
360 – Eagle Prep Summer Camp
July 6, 2021
105 – Vashon High School
July 7, 2021
45 – Kranzberg Arts Center – Jazz Fest
July 8, 2021
402 – City Academy Summer Camp
100 – Northside Community Center Camp
July 9, 2021
240 – Gene Slay Dutchtown Camp
285 – Gene Slay Soulard Camp
July 28, 2021
4994 – Normandy Schools Collaborative
July 30, 2021
75 – Consuming Kinetics Dance Company – Summer Camp
June 15, 2021
375 – City Academy
June 22, 2021
616 – Books for Newborns
June 29, 2021
85 – The Leadership School at St. Vincent’s Community Center
June 30, 2021
450 – Northside Community School
May 5, 2021
325 – Hawthorn Leadership for Girls
May 10, 2021
355 – Katy Trail Estates
May 19, 2021
450 – Our Lady of Guadalupe Elementary School
May 20, 2021
450 – Herzog Elementary School SLPS
April 5, 2021
105 – Eagle Flats Apartments
April 8, 2021
160 – Ridgeway Villas Apartments
April 17, 2021
210 – Hawthorn Leadership School for Girls
April 30, 2021
91- Oak Hill Elementary SLPS
March 16, 2021
1,090 – Hamilton Elementary SLPS
What we do
- Bookmobile: Book Book Go has a Book Bus that allows families to choose books they will actually read. We take our read-aloud mission on the road with our Book Bus and travel to events. We bring new curated free books to children.
Our Story
Improving attitudes about reading at home and school
Book Book Go is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation that strives to improve early childhood literacy and inspire children to read every day with their families. We focus on providing award winning and new books to children in underserved neighborhoods. The books we provide spark imaginations and improve attitudes about reading in a child’s early childhood years and beyond. Our mission strives to eliminate the literacy gap and encourage children to have fun reading everyday. We strive to choose books that mirror the communities we serve.
Book Bus Visits
- Paul Laurence Dunbar Elementary School In East St. Louis, Illinois
- Gateway 180 Homeless Services And Little Legacies Library Project And AKA Sorority Literacy Project
- Humboldt School SLPS
- East St. Louis Public Library Bookmobile
- East St. Louis Public Library Bookmobile
- Horizon Housing Foundation/Sycamore Hills Townhouses/ Back-To-School Celebration/Desoto, MO
- Eagle Prep Summer Camp
- City Academy Summer Camp
- Gene Slay Soulard Camp
- City Academy
- Northside Community School
- Our Lady Of Guadalupe Elementary School
- Eagle Flats Apartments
- Oak Hill Elementary SLPS
- Naheed Chapman New American Academy
- Sycamore Hills Apartments Desoto, MO (Horizon Housing Foundation)
- Arch Community Elementary School
- St. Louis City Fire Department – Community Holiday Party
- Sacred Heart Villa School
- Bicentennial ArtFest And Ice Cream Social/ Celebration For Newly Proposed Hodiamont Tracks Bike Trail/Great Rivers Greenway/SLACO/St Louis Arts Chamber Of Commerce
- WAY Center/Back To School Event At Ritenour School District, Wyland Elementary
- Vashon High School
- Northside Community Center Camp
- Normandy Schools Collaborative
- Books For Newborns
- Hawthorn Leadership For Girls
- Herzog Elementary School SLPS
- Ridgeway Villas Apartments
- Herbert Hoover Boys And Girls Club, Ferguson MO
- Meachum Park Neighborhood Association/Horizons In Kirkwood- Halloween Party
- Spark Steam Early Learning Academy
- Lemay Manor Apartments/Horizon Housing Foundation
- Saint Louis Public Schools – Back To School Streetfest Event At Gateway Elementary
- Village Of Mom’s – Back To School Event
- Kranzberg Arts Center – Jazz Fest
- Gene Slay Dutchtown Camp
- Consuming Kinetics Dance Company – Summer Camp
- The Leadership School At St. Vincent’s Community Center
- Katy Trail Estates
- Hawthorn Leadership School For Girls
- Hamilton Elementary SLPS
Total number of new books given away since March 2021: 21, 902
If parents understood the huge educational benefits and intense happiness brought about by reading aloud to their children, and if every parent – and every adult caring for a child – read aloud a minimum of three stories a day to the children in their lives, we could probably wipe out illiteracy within one generation.
– Mem Fox, Author of Reading Magic
