Imagination Library

This is an AWESOME program! If you have children under 5, go and sign up for this if your county participates. Catawba County DOES participate, Mecklenburg does not. Those are the only ones I have checked. Gabriel and Elizabeth received their first books yesterday and they are beautiful hard back books! I was expecting flimsy paperbacks and was happily surprised :)



They will each receive 1 per month until they turn 5. FOR FREE! And you know how I love children's books! Please share this with anyone you know that has children. Teachers and others that work in schools, this is great information to share with folks at your school if your county participates! I already was a big Dolly fan, now I really love her! What a wonderful program!

http://imaginationlibrary.com

From the website:

"In 1996, Dolly Parton launched an exciting new effort to benefit the children of her home county in east Tennessee. Dolly wanted to foster a love of reading among her county’s preschool children and their families. She wanted children to be excited about books and to feel the magic that books can create. Moreover, she could insure that every child would have books, regardless of their family’s income."

"So she decided to mail a brand new, age appropriate book each month to every child under 5 in Sevier County. With the arrival of every child’s first book, the classic The Little Engine That Could ™, every child could now experience the joy of finding their very own book in their mail box. These moments continue each month until the child turns 5—and in their very last month in the program they receive Look Out Kindergarten Here I Come."