Imagination Library/Birth-5-Book Delivery

Evidence Step: Strong Evidence Strong Evidence Two or more rigorous evaluations support the program model.
Department: Early Literacy Foundation
Priority Area: Education Quality and Access

Program Description

The program is a partnership with Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library to provide every Tennessee child from birth to age five with a book each month at no cost to families, delivered right to their mailbox. It is a gift of up to 60 high-quality, age-appropriate books to build a child’s home library before kindergarten with beloved classics like The Little Engine That Could and the Llama Llama series, selected by a blue-ribbon committee of early childhood education experts.

Details

Program Demographic: Infancy / Early Childhood, Families
Delivery Setting: Home
Current Participants: 401,831

Research