Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library Reaches 63 Canterbury Children After Growing Beyond Tennessee
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Updated · WMUR Manchester · Aug 25
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library Reaches 63 Canterbury Children After Growing Beyond Tennessee
1 articles · Updated · WMUR Manchester · Aug 25
Summary
Sixty-three children in Canterbury, New Hampshire, are enrolled in Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library through a partnership with Elkins Public Library.
The program mails free books to registered children from birth to age 5, aiming to build reading habits early and draw families into regular library use.
Rachel Baker, director of Elkins Public Library, said the effort strengthens both literacy and community, with families reading together at home and engaging at the library.
Parton, who died Tuesday at 80, said she created the program because her father could not read; it began in her Tennessee home county and has since expanded worldwide.