HOLDREGE – The Phelps County Community Foundation announced today their partnership with Dolly Parton’s ‘Imagination Library’, a program dedicated to gifting free books to children from birth to age five, to area youth in Phelps County.
Hear from PCCF’s Executive Director Kara Faber on the news:
Faber added that the program will be for any child residing in Phelps County, and that registration will be open soon. Once registered, the child can expect to receive their first book in mail in about 6-9 weeks. If there are multiple children registered at one address, the children may receive their books on different days due to the way the book mailing process is completed. More details for registration can be found at the Phelps County Community Foundation’s website by clicking here.
PCCF is currently working with schools, daycare facilities, the Holdrege Public Library, and other community partners and businesses to get registration forms to parents. Forms may also be picked up at the PCCF office located at 424 Garfield St. in Holdrege, NE or by visiting the website phelpsfoundation.org.
People interested in learning more about registering their child(ren) in the Imagination Library can contact Coral Weeder, Program Assistant, as cweeder@phelpsfoundation.org or by calling the PCCF office at 308-995-6847.
About Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library
Since launching in 1995, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library has become the preeminent early childhood
book gifting program in the world. The flagship program of The Dollywood Foundation has gifted well
over 140 million free books in Australia, Canada, The Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom and the
United States. The Imagination Library mails more than 1.7 million high-quality, age-appropriate books
each month to registered children from birth to five.
Dolly envisioned creating a life-long love of reading, inspiring them to dream. The impact of the program
has been widely researched and results suggest positive increases in key early childhood literacy
metrics. Penguin Random House is the exclusive publisher for Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. For
more information, please visit imaginationlibrary.com.
