Imagination Library

$35 provides a local child with monthly books for a year!

Imagination Library is an early childhood education initiative which provides FREE books to children, from birth to age five.  Once enrolled the child will receive a new, age-appropriate book delivered in their name to their home once monthly until their fifth birthday as long as they are a resident of the UWNEMN service area (Iron Range and Koochiching County).  Originally started by Dolly Parton, the program's vision is to get children excited about books and reading and to ensure that every child has books in their home, regardless of family income. UWNEMN initiated the Dolly Parton Imagination Library program in 2008.  

Countless studies document the relationship between early literacy and school performance.  By providing the children of our community with quality, age-appropriate books, we seek to:

• increase children's access to books,
• encourage parents to read more often to their children,
• support children in the development of a love for reading, and
• better prepare children to begin school.

Ideally, we would like to reach 100% of our children.  We cannot make significant steps toward that goal without your help!  "Imagination Library was designed to help children dream more, learn more, care more and be more, and it is really working," said Dolly Parton.  Please help spread the word about Imagination Library!

We also need your support to fund the program.  Just $35 is needed to sponsor one child for one year. With your support, we can help every young child find the spark of their own imagination through reading books.