Books for Sumter Children

📚💌 February Books Are On Their Way! 💌📚

We’re excited to share that our February books have been mailed to children registered to receive free monthly books from Books for Sumter Children!

This month’s wonderful selections include:

✨ Our Gorgeous Baby
♻️ Don’t Throw It Away
🦖 Stomp
🔢 A Number Slumber
🚗 Drive

Each of these books was carefully chosen to spark imagination, build early literacy skills, and create special reading moments between children and their families. We love knowing that mailboxes across Sumter County are filling up with stories that inspire learning and joy! ❤️

If you have a child under five who isn’t registered yet, it’s not too late! You can sign up to receive a FREE book in the mail every month here:
👉 https://ferstreaders.org/resources/register-a-child-sub/register-a-child

Help us spread the word so every child in our community can build a home library of their own! 📖✨

📚✨ Love of Literacy Gala – February 10, 2026 ✨📚

Help put books in the hands of every child in Sumter County!

🕕 6 PM – Social hour, followed by surf & turf dinner and program
📍 Rev. Pearly Brown Music Park, Americus, GA

📊 Why it matters:

1 in 3 Georgia children enters school without basic literacy skills

Reading at home before kindergarten = higher school success

Access to books improves 3rd-grade reading proficiency dramatically

🎟 Tickets include social, dinner & program:

Individual: $75
Table of 8: $600
Premier Sponsor Table: $1,000 (prime location & recognition)

📧 Reserve your spot: Email [email protected]
with your name, address, phone number, and ticket type/quantity, subject line: "BFSC Gala", then mail check to BFSC, PO Box 129, Americus, GA 31709

💛 Let’s change lives—one book at a time!