The Virgin Islands Children's Museum Proudly Presents Our Signature Literacy Program
All children under the age of 5 in the territory are eligible to register and registration is free!
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Participating children receive one book per month delivered to their mailing address.
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free, high-quality, age-appropriate books to children from birth until they begin school, age 5, no matter their family’s income.
Literacy is a gift that lasts a lifetime.
The launch of Dolly Parton's Imagination Library is made possible by Scoops and Brew! But we need your support to keep it alive. So make your donation today.
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one book per child per month
is just $2.10
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one years worth of books per child is just $25.20
5 years worth of books per child is just $126
Dolly’s Imagination Library launched in 1995 in Dolly's hometown community, Sevier County, TN. In 2000, it became available for replication across the United States. In 2006, the program launched in Canada and in the United Kingdom the following year. By 2010, Imagination Library had mailed 25 million books internationally. Audio and Braille books were added in 2011 and in 2013, the program launched in Australia. In February of 2018, Dolly Parton donated her 100,000,000 book to the Library of Congress.
Made possible by:
“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