Imagination Library
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library has arrived in Central Virginia!
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Read to Them is a local affiliate of Dolly Parton's Imagination Library. As an affiliate of the program, we help provide a free, age-appropriate, high-quality book each month to registered children from birth to age five. These books are mailed directly to the child’s home to create a gifting experience that makes books exciting and shows the child someone is thinking of them.
4,000+
children enrolled
57,000+
books mailed
5,000+
children served
28
zip codes served
“The single most significant factor influencing a child’s early educational success is an
introduction to books and being read to at home prior to beginning school.”
- National Commission on Reading
Sign up your child to receive free books!
Do you have a Central Virginia zip code? Children from birth to age five living within a local affiliate's service area can receive one free, high-quality book each month.
Enroll your child today!
If you are a parent or legal guardian of a child under age five, we invite you to enroll your child at your child's home address.
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If you have several children under age five, each child can be enrolled separately and will receive their own books.
61% of lower-income households in Central Virginia
do not have any books in their homes.
Reading levels are three class years behind in Richmond.
Let's change the story.
Campaign for Grade Level Reading 2010 Report. Tennessee Department of Education (2021)
"Approximately 85% of brain development happens in the first five years of life, so reading during these critical years significantly increases a child’s lifelong capacity to learn."