Dolly Parton's Imaginary Library is a non-profit organization that promotes early childhood literacy. This particular FB page serves the Traverse City Area in Traverse City, Michigan.
DPIL Grand Traverse is an affiliate of Dolly Parton's Imagination Library located in Traverse City, Michigan. Currently, our events involve reading hour at Interlochen Public Library.
Dolly Parton's Imaginary Library is a non profit organization that promotes early childhood literacy by giving free age-appropriate books to children from birth to five years old. Reading to young children is proven to be the single most important thing parents can to to ensure their children's success in school.
History. In 1995, Dolly Parton launched an exciting new effort, to benefit the children of her home county in East Tennessee. Dolly's vision was to foster a love of reading among her county's preschool children and their families by providing them with the gift of a specially selected book each month.
Dolly's Imagination Library became so popular that in the year 2000 she announced that she would make the program available for replication to any community that was willing to partner with her to support it locally. The program has grown to serving over 1600 communities providing the Imagination Library to over 1,000,000 children. The program opens new worlds for children and fosters a lifelong love of reading.
Program. After registration approval, preschool children ages birth to five are mailed a carefully selected book each month. This is free with no cost or obligation to the family. The responsibility of the parent is to read with their children.
We believe in this program and are dedicated and are striving to reach all in our county far and wide. In order to achieve our goals, we appreciate your time in considering a donation to our mission. A sponsorship of $25 covers 1 child for the year!
Thank you to our current partners: Central United Methodist Church and Interlochen Public Library. We are working with TCAPS in hope that we will soon be able to open up the rest of Traverse City.
