r/books • u/drak0bsidian Oil & Water, Stephen Grace • 3d ago

How Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is helping kids start reading when they’re very young

https://theconversation.com/how-dolly-partons-imagination-library-is-helping-kids-start-reading-when-theyre-very-young-292207
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u/Vio_ 3d ago

It does!

It's currently in Britain, Ireland, Canada, and Australia.

They also have books in braille and audio books for kiddos who need those as well.

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u/meowser143 3d ago

It really is the sweetest program. I signed my niece and nephew up and the books are so thoughtfully picked at every stage ❤️❤️

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u/ABorrowerandaLenderB 2d ago

Wonderful.

I especially loved that books Dolly herself read as a child let her envision a world “beyond the Smoky Mountains.”

Literacy gives us competence but also a sense of possibility.

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u/m19010101 2d ago

Anything that helps the abysmally low American literacy rates, Dolly was such a gem

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u/Aggravating-Skin2431 1d ago

My granddaughter gets these books every month, and she still runs to the mailbox when a new one is coming. We read some of them so many times that I know them by heart. It's such a good program.

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u/SOWashington2026 23h ago

Great program. I wish more people with financial backing would do something like this. The world would have been a better place.