Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

Do you have or know an Indigenous child under five years old? If so, sign up through the FNHC for the Imagination Library and you can receive a free book to read to them every month until their fifth birthday!

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a Free Book Gifting Program that mails free, high-quality books to children from birth to age five. This unique program provides children with access to books to inspire reading. Registered children receive specially-selected books personalized and mailed directly to them every month until their fifth birthday, at no cost to the child’s family. Children can be signed up as early as birth and receive books monthly until their fifth birthday. Parents, teachers or members of the child’s support network with consent can also sign kids up!

Please Note: The FNHC can only sign up Indigenous (First Nations, Inuit, Metis) children to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. If you are non-Indigenous, please visit the Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library website to find out how you can sign up.

What are the steps to sign up?

You can submit your registration online OR download and email a PDF fillable form. After we receive your submission, one of our staff members will follow up with you on the details.

Option 1: Online

Option 2: Fillable PDF

Please send completed PDF fillable form to: [email protected]

Age-Appropriate Book Placement

Imagination Library books are specifically selected age-appropriate, high-quality titles. At right is an infographic that highlights which type of books are for the specific age category.

For example:

Year 1:

– Vision – bright, big, colorful
– Touch – board pages
– Rhyme and rhythm
– Simple – easy to use
– Minimal text – point and say
– Playful sound
– Nature – attachment – lullaby themes

Year 2

– Continue concepts from year one and build upon them
– Repetition and predictability – generate language
– Books about daily routines, topics familiar to child
– Use of real photo illustration
– Body awareness
– Nursey rhymes

FNHC's Partnership with Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

In 2021 the First Nations Health Consortium signed a memorandum of agreement with the Dollywood Foundation of Canada with the goal of assisting the early educational development of children. Our goal in joining together with the Dollywood Foundation is to support children in First Nation communities in having access to books that will inspire reading and assist in early educational development of children.