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Selby will host a new chapter of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, providing free books mailed monthly to children from birth to age five as part of a £400,000 Cradle to Career initiative across North Yorkshire to boost early literacy and school readiness. The program, which began in Rotherham in 2007, now operates in multiple countries and has distributed millions of books worldwide.
Tennessee leaders unveiled a plan to fully fund Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library statewide starting in 2027, with the Governor’s Early Literacy Foundation paying for half the books and mailing and local partners covering the rest; the budget measure still needs approval. The program has been statewide since 2004, serving all 95 counties and cementing Tennessee’s leadership in early literacy.
All children in Kentucky aged 5 and under are now eligible to receive free books monthly through Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library program, thanks to statewide funding support. The initiative aims to enhance early literacy skills and has already distributed over 240 million books globally since its inception in 1995.