Business · Updated 25 Oct, 11:53 pm IST
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library mails free books to young children
Why it matters for readers: A simple way to understand how gifting books can support early childhood dreams and literacy.
- The Imagination Library was started by Dolly Parton in 1995 for children in her home county in East Tennessee.1
- The program mails a specially selected, age-appropriate book each month to children from birth through age five.1
- It now operates across five countries: the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and the Republic of Ireland.1
- Today the program distributes millions of free books every month to children worldwide.1
- Parton says the program was inspired by her father’s inability to read and write and aims to plant seeds of dreaming and learning in children.1
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