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.
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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
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.
“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
News & Updates
4,400 kids enrolled!​
​Imagination Library is excited to share that we have enrolled over 4,200 children in the City of Richmond and have enrolled over 200 children in the City of Petersburg since our December launch.
Imagination Library at
Westover Hills Elementary
We joined Westover Hills Elementary for their Literacy and Art Night. The event was bolstered by make and take literacy stations, and a silent auction, where all proceeds benefit Westover Hill’s library and art department.
Imagination Library Arrives
in Petersburg!
As of December 2024, children 0-5 living in all City of Petersburg zip codes are now eligible to receive free books from Imagination Library. We are thrilled to have you join our community of readers!
Why Imagination Library?
​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.
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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."