Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
Do you have or know a child under five years old? If so, sign up 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 is aimed to provide children access to books and aims to inspire reading. Registered children receive specially-selected books personalized with child’s name on label, 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 5th birthday.
Parents, teachers or members of the child’s support network with consent can also sign kids up!
What are the steps to sign up?
All you need to do is fill out this registration form and email it to: [email protected]!
After we receive the registration form, one of our staff members will follow up with you on the details.
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
Community Partners and Our Evolution
Initially the FNHC and Dolly Parton worked with communities as a whole to implement the Imagination Library. Fox Lake, an isolated First Nations community in northern Alberta was the first to sign up, followed by Whitefish Lake, Peerless Trout and Piikani.
Now FNHC is working directly with parents, teachers and members of a child’s support network to reduce barriers to signing up children for the Imagination Library.
So far well over 100 First Nations children in Alberta have or are participating in the Imagination Library!
Memorandum of Agreement
Little Red River Cree Nation, Fox Lake
Whitefish Lake First Nation #128
Peerless Trout First Nation
Piikani Nation
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.
We are thankful for Canadian Natural Resources ongoing support for the Dolly Parton Imagination Library.
Your generous donation is greatly appreciated!
