Bring the magic of a library into the home of a child, thanks to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library.
A community-based, early literacy intervention program, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a free book gifting program devoted to inspiring a love of reading in the hearts of children everywhere.
Each month until the age of five, the registered child will be sent a brand new, age-appropriate book in the mail, accompanied with information and advice for parents on engaging with their child while reading aloud.
By simply reading a book to their children, parents can help establish a rich home learning environment, build stronger family bonds and engage with the book in ways that drive language development and early literacy.
Each book is free for the child to keep and has been chosen by a committee of experts to represent the diversity of the wider community.
The Imagination Library supports parents as their child’s first and most important teacher and takes a proven first step towards sparking curiosity, a love of reading and learning.
The program equips a child with the early experiences and skills they will one day rely on to learn to read and write.
This evidence-based program meets the criteria identified by research as fundamental to improving early literacy levels in communities and boosting children’s success in life.
Founded by Dolly Parton over 20 years ago, the Imagination Library program has seen over 200 million books delivered to children in the USA, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia.
The Imagination Library in Cumberland is now accepting children born in 2021, 2022 and 2023, who reside in a suburb of the Cumberland Local Government Area (LGA).
To find out more information about the Imagination Library visit http://www.cumberland.nsw.gov.au/imagination-library or call your local council on 8757 9000.
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