Tennessee's Statewide Imagination Library
Tennessee's statewide Imagination Library mails free, high-quality, age-appropriate books to preschool children to help develop their brains, vocabulary, *school readiness* and LOVE of learning & reading.
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Founded:
2004

Tennessee's Statewide Imagination Library

 
Tennessee's Statewide Imagination Library

Tennessee's Statewide Imagination Library "...the Imagination Library is very close to my heart, because so many of my relatives couldn’t read & write; I know how crippling that was for them." ~Dolly

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Country treasure Dolly Parton comes alive!
Tennessee's Statewide Imagination Library

Tennessee's Statewide Imagination Library Thanks, Her Nashville, for your partnership in promoting Friday's event, benefiting Books from Birth of Middle Tennessee!

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BFB_header_db.jpgWin two tickets to Books, Boots & BBQ at Loveless Barn from Her Nashville and Books from Birth!  Books from Birth presents it's annual event on Novembver 6, 2009, at the Loveless Barn in Nashville. The western theme
Tennessee's Statewide Imagination Library

Tennessee's Statewide Imagination Library Wow! As of the book order for November, the Shelby County team has mailed over 1 MILLION Imagination Library books to registered children in their county. Congratulations to the Shelby County Books from Birth board, staff and volunteers!

Tennessee's Statewide Imagination Library

Tennessee's Statewide Imagination Library "Whether or not they realize it, business leaders have a significant stake in the outcomes of early childhood education & care programs..." ~Nashville's Vice Mayor, Diane Neighbors

Tennessee's Statewide Imagination Library

Tennessee's Statewide Imagination Library Middle Tennessee: Save the Date (Nov. 6) & get ready for a fun, fantastic event benefiting Imagination Libraries of Davidson, Williamson, Sumner counties!

A Benefit Supporting Books from Birth of Middle Tennessee
Location:The Loveless Barn
Time:6:30PM Friday, November 6th
Tennessee's Statewide Imagination Library

Tennessee's Statewide Imagination Library In a recent poll of families across America, the Dollywood Foundation asked, "Do you read more with your children since participating in Dolly Parton's Imagination Library?" An incredible 85% responded 'Yes'.

Tennessee's Statewide Imagination Library

Tennessee's Statewide Imagination Library Carter County celebratory dinner honors educators for the 4th year in a row, with all proceeds benefiting their local Imagination Library... :)

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The fourth annual Carter County Imagination Library Educators Hall of Fame Dinner took place Saturday evening at the Truman Clark Annex of the Carter County Health Center.
Tennessee's Statewide Imagination Library

Tennessee's Statewide Imagination Library Do we have any Imagination Library 'graduates' and/or their family members out there who would like to share the positive impacts the Imagination Library had on them or their family? We'd love to hear from you!

October 19 at 1:24pm
April
April
We just completed a penny drive for your library . We raised $1761.85. Way to go Meigs North Elementary School.
October 19 at 5:15pm
Amy Shields Massengill
Amy Shields Massengill
My now seven-year-old was reading at age three ... and I know that part of it was because she had a wonderful library of books to choose from. She misses them so much & gets to live vicariously through her little sister!
October 19 at 7:39pm
Tennessee's Statewide Imagination Library

Tennessee's Statewide Imagination Library Shout-Out to Tracy Kreuser: Fan# 1,000 today! We're so humbled. 1,000 fb Fans is almost as cool as the 217,348 TN children who'll receive a book in the mail next month. Help us keep the momentum; please tell a Friend we're here. Happy Reading to this wonderful, growing community! We appreciate you.

Tennessee's Statewide Imagination Library

Tennessee's Statewide Imagination Library Fans of the favorite Imagination Library book in the Nashville area, don't miss the Family Field Trip at Tennessee Performing Arts Center - a live puppet adaptation of 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' (celebrating its 40th anniversary!): http://www.nowplayingnashville.com/event/detail/155639%20

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Other Eric Carle Favourites from the Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia uses innovative black light staging as the backdrop for this live puppet adaptation of Eric Carle’s delightful children’s books –
Amna Al Balushi
Amna Al Balushi
its really interesting
October 8 at 2:22pm
Tennessee's Statewide Imagination Library

Tennessee's Statewide Imagination Library Jumpstart's Read for the Record this year features the favorite Imagination Library book, 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar'! Pledge to read the book with a child here:

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By signing up below, you’ll be pledging to read Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Cateprillar with one or many children on October 8, 2009. We’ll send you an email on the day of the campaign so you can confirm your pledge numbers and officially be counted for the world record.
Lauren Head
Lauren Head
I just signed up!
September 30 at 12:55pm
Tennessee's Statewide Imagination Library

Tennessee's Statewide Imagination Library Up to 100,000 books delivered in Britain! Hi-Ho & Cheers to our friends in Old Blighty!

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• Wigtownshire boy says Hello to Dolly’s Special Delivery Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is celebrating the delivery of the 100,000th book th...
Karen Edmonds Williams
Karen Edmonds Williams
Yvonne Wood deserves credit for this. This got started in the UK through her connections and the ATHENA organization. Congrats!
October 1 at 8:03am
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Tennessee's Statewide Imagination Library Imagination Library Week a la Maury County!

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Employees from Target in Spring Hill helped Maury County celebrate Imagination Library Week Friday by reading to children at Riverside Elementary School.“We’re so thrilled to have developed ...
Tennessee's Statewide Imagination Library
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Gov. Phil Bredesen sat on the carpeted floor of the Bellwood-Bowdoin preschool Thursday afternoon, reading a couple of books to Liz Fite’s 18 4-year-old preschool kindergarten students.
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