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1. Dolly's Imagination Library

By: Mary Cunningham, on 1/30/2011
Blog: Cynthia's Attic Blog (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: children's books, childhood literacy, Dolly Parton, Imagination Library, Kathy L. Patrick, Pulpwood Queens, Add a tag

I had the pleasure of taking part in the Pulpwood Queens' Girlfriend Weekend, Jan 13-16 in Jefferson, TX. To say I had fun is a gross understatement. I had a BALL, especially at the Great Big Ball of Hair Ball! (You'd have to be there)

Not only does founder, Kathy Louise Patrick of Beauty and the Book - a beauty salon/bookstore - support literacy and authors, she is hugely involved in the Dolly Parton Imagination Library. There's nothing this dynamo won't do when it comes to reading!

And, a shout-out goes to my home county, Harrison/Corydon, Indiana!

The Harrison County Community Foundation is again offering a 2:1 match during the 2011 calendar year; this time to support Dolly Parton's Imagination Library program through the Early Readers Fund.

"The program will cost about $50,000 a year", reports executive director Steve Gilliland. "This double-match incentive is to recruit donor partners from the community to help us build an endowment that will perpetually fund the Imagination Library."

Joan and Pete Schickel quickly took advantage of the Foundation's offer. They provided nearly $25,000 in stock to become the lead private donor.

"Everyone knows how much we love children and our schools," says Joan. "Pete and I believe this program will help provide an appreciation for reading and give children a head start for kindergarten."

Please support the Dolly Parton Imagination Library in your area. If your county doesn't have one, look into starting one!

Here's how:
A community must make the program accessible to all preschool children in their area. The community pays for the books and mailing, promotes the program, registers the children, and enters the information into the database.

From there The Dollywood Foundation takes over and manages the system to deliver the books to the home. You can find out more of the operational details on other pages in this website – so what are you waiting for! Hundreds of communities are providing books to hundreds of thousands of children.

Check out the Pulpwood Queens, Beauty & the Book and the Dolly Parton Imagination Library! Click Here

Harrison County Community Foundation

Mary Cunningham Books for 'Tweens

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2. PJ Library

By: Melissa Ackerman, on 8/24/2010
Blog: Albert Whitman & Company Blog (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: Children's Books, Barbara Reid, Fox Walked Alone, Multicultural books, PJ Library, Dolly Parton, Linda Glaser, Frances Harber, Hoppy Hanukkah!, Hoppy Passover!, Imagination Library, The Brothers’ Promise, The Harold Grinspoon Foundation, Add a tag

By Abby in Editorial

Have you ever heard of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library? This literacy program brings free books each month to preschool kids all across the country so that regardless of income, thousands of kids have good books to read. Dolly’s wonderful idea—plus a family Seder where the kids received Jewish-themed books—inspired Harold Grinspoon, a Massachusetts philanthropist. He founded the PJ Library to help families strengthen their Jewish identity.

Every month, the library (“PJ” as in pajamas—for cozy bedtime reading) sends a book with Jewish content to Jewish families with kids aged six months to seven years. The neat thing is that these books, too, are all free—interested families just need to sign up when PJ comes to a participating community.

The Harold Grinspoon Foundation works with local funding partners to provide the books (and one CD of songs each year). The PJ Library is now in over one hundred twenty-five communities coast to coast and in Canada and serves more than sixty thousand families. In four years, the library has given away more than two million books!

We’re delighted that the PJ Library has included several Albert Whitman picture books in its offerings. These include Linda Glaser’s simple and charming Hoppy Hanukkah! and Hoppy Passover! in which two young bunnies observe the holidays with their family; Barbara Reid’s Fox Walked Alone, an unusual take on the Noah’s Ark story, with stunning plasticene art; and Frances Harber’s The Brothers’ Promise, a retelling of a Talmudic tale of brotherly love.