Pictured: Dwight Lion Gundy, Pat Sims-Eastwood and “Dolly” from the Imagination Library of Lake of Bays and Dwight Lion Richard
About Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library
Launched in 1995, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is the world’s leading early childhood book-gifting program. As the flagship initiative of The Dollywood Foundation, the Imagination Library has gifted more than 300 million free books to children across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and the Republic of Ireland.
The program is made possible through a unique partnership model in which funding is shared between The Dollywood Foundation and hundreds of Local Program Partners. Today, the Imagination Library mails over 3 million high-quality, age-appropriate books each month directly to children’s homes. Every enrolled child receives one book per month from birth to age five—at no cost to their families.
Inspired by her own father’s struggles with literacy, Dolly created the Imagination Library to spark a lifelong love of reading and to inspire all children to Dream More, Learn More, Care More, and Be More.
The program’s effectiveness has been extensively studied, with research consistently demonstrating positive impacts on early childhood development, kindergarten readiness, and family reading habits.
Please contact me for more details about how the program works, the benefits of the program, what funding is needed and how parents can register their children.