Themes & Concepts

Prevalent Themes and Focus of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library:

Inspiration & Imagination

Other Fundamental Themes of Regard:

Love of reading and learning; regard for diversity of people, their roles, culture, and environment; promotion of self-esteem and confidence, appreciation of art and aesthetics

 

Each series of books should contain certain characteristics specific to its age appropriateness including:

Year 1

Group 1

The youngest children – newborns – ages 0 – < 1

Group 2

Ages < 1 – 1+ (turning 1)

  • Vision – bright, big, colorful
  • Touch – board pages
  • Rhyme and rhythm
  • Simple – easy to use
  • Minimal text – point and say
  • Playful sound
  • Nurture – attachment- lullaby themes

Year 2

Group 3

Ages < 2 – 2+ (Turning 2)

  • Continue concepts from year one and build upon them
  • Repetition and predictability – generate language
  • Books about daily routines, topics familiar to child
  • Use of real photo illustration
  • Body awareness
  • Nursery rhymes
  • Colors, letters, numbers

Year 3

Group 4

Ages < 3 – 3+ (Turning 3)

  • Wordless books – build your own story (reader and child)
  • Values and character
  • Issues – fear, conflict, love, safety
  • Colors, letters, numbers
  • Nursery rhymes

Year 4

Group 5

Ages < 4 – 4+ (Turning 4)

  • More complex stories – hero, complication, resolution
  • Diversity of others – faces, environment – OK to be different
  • Play, humor, fun
  • Nursery rhymes and poetry

Year 5

Group 6

The oldest children – graduating children – turning 5 – ages < 5 – 5

  • School preparation and readiness     
  • Use rebus (pictures used for words)
  • Science – non-fiction
  • Folk tales
  • Thank you, appreciation
  • Rhymes and poetry

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