Imagination Library Blue Ribbon Selections Canada
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library puts books into the hands and hearts of children around the world. Imagination Library books are specially selected age-appropriate, high-quality titles. These books are delivered to registered children each month from birth to age five. Each one is personalized with the child’s name and mailed directly to the child’s home. This effort creates a gifting experience making books exciting and shows the child someone is thinking of them. Books featuring Canadian authors and illustrators are introduced into the program each year. Additionally, titles with themes and subjects that appeal to the Canadian readers are included.
The first book a child receives is “The Little Engine That Could™” (customized version). The month a child turns five years old, they will receive “Look Out Kindergarten, Here I Come!” (customized version).
2026 Book List – Canada
Group 6 (Children born in 2021)
■+ Freddie the Flyer
+ Frostfire
+ There Are No Ants in this Book
+ Dim Sum Palace
+ On this Airplane
■•+ Sarabeth’s Garage
•+ The Great Dinosaur Sleepover
+ In the Clouds
■•+Δ Wandering Feather
■•+Δ Beautiful You, Beautiful Me
+ Count on Me
Group 5 (Children born in 2022)
+ The Three Little Mittens
+ The Care and Keeping of Grandmas
■+ On the Trapline
+ The Darkest Dark
+Δ My Day with Gong Gong
•+ Hello Baby it’s me Alfie
•+ Dinos That Drive
+ Mama’s Sleeping Scarf
•+ Broken
•+ Fly in the Chai
+Δ Stella Queen of Snow
Coat of Many Colors
Group 4 (Children born in 2023)
+ Towed by Toad
+ No No Baby
Solutions For Cold Feet
+ We Adopted a Baby Chick
■+Δ Mii maanda ezhi-gkendmaanh / This Is How I Know
•Δ Big Bear Hug
•+ Sand Cakes
+ Carson Crosses Canada
•+Δ Hugs are Not for Everyone
•+Δ They Say Blue
•+ Spaghetti
■+ Métis Like Me
Group 3 (Children born in 2024)
+ A Bedtime Yarn
+ Buffalo Fluffalo
+ Crocodile Hungry
+ Peanut Butter and Jelly
+Δ One Rainy Day
+Δ Llamas With Lemonade
+ Nancy Knows
+ One Elephant Went Out to Play
■+ It Bears Repeating
+ Diggers Love Their Friends!
•+Δ Blanket
+ Honk Honk Beep Beep Putter Put
Group 2 (Children born in 2025)
■+Δ Boozhoo! / Hello!
+ A Northern Alphabet
+ Blankie (Narwhal & Jelly)
+Δ Canadian Animals in Colours
+ Anne’s Colors
+Δ ABC of Canada
Good Night Gorilla
Llama Llama Red Pajama
+ Skinnamarink
•+Δ West Coast Wild ABCs
•+Δ Busy Busy Birds
•+ Where’s Baby? BILINGUAL Oji-Cree
Group 1 (Children born in 2026)
+ Same Same
+ Sometimes We Think You are a Monkey
+ Anne’s Numbers
Llama Llama Hide & Seek
Who Says Quack?
Look at the Animals
My Feet Go
Sleep Tight, Polar Bear (Little Loves)
Pudgy Pat A Cake
A World to Meet
+Δ Upsy-Daisy-Baby
+ Published by Penguin Random House Canada, Canadian Content or Canadian Author/Illustrator’s book
■ Title written or illustrated by an Indigenous Creator
Δ Published by Penguin Random House Canada’s licensed partners: Kids Can Press, Owlkids, Groundwood, and Annick Press