Imagination Library Gold Medal Selections Republic of Ireland
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 book 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. Additionally, the Book Selection Committee will choose titles with content representative of readers living in the Republic of Ireland, featuring beloved characters and iconic authors. All of the following books are published by Penguin Random House.
The first book a child receives is “The Little Engine That Could” , personalized with their name. The month a child turns five years old, they will receive “The Selfish Giant”.
2024 Book List – Republic of Ireland
Group 1 (Children born in 2024)
Baby Touch B&W Faces
Peter Rabbit: Hello Peter!
Moomin Baby: Words Tummy Time Concertina Book
• Baby Touch: Toys: A Black-and-White Book
All About Me
Baby Touch Colours
• Ladybird Photographic – Baby Animals
How to Feed Your Cheeky Monkey
Whose… Stripes?
• Baby Touch: I Love You
Group 2 (Children born in 2023)
Peekaboo! Farm
Where is the Very Hungry Caterpillar?
Roald Dahl: Shapes
• Say Goodnight, Little Kitten
• Ladybird Photographic – 123
• Whose Nose?
• Baby Touch: Rainbow
Baby Touch: Nursery Rhymes
• Ladybird Photographic – My Body
Spot Goes to the Farm
My First 100 Words
Baby Touch: Night-Night
Group 3 (Children born in 2022)
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Shark in the Park
Busy Day: Astronaut
• Find Spot: The Rainy Day
Meg & Mog
Magic Windows: My Body
Pom Pom Gets the Grumps
Little World: On the Train
• Mina and the Big Bit
• Little Pop-Ups: Little Red Riding Hood
Ladybird First Favourite Nursery Rhymes
My World, Your World
Group 4 (Children born in 2021)
100 Birds
Who’s Going to Bed
• The Little Red Hen (Ladybird First Favourites)
• Flora and Nora
Hunt for Treasure
• Geoffrey Gets the Jitters
Flip, Flap, Find! Counting 1, 2, 3
The Pirates on the Bus
• Crash! Bang! Wallop!
There’s a Dragon in Your Book
Hey Duggee The Football Badge
• Alfie Gets in First
• If You’re Happy and You Know It
Group 5 (Children born in 2020)
Funnybones: Bumps in the Night
Do You Know? Level 1 – BBC Earth Animal Families
We’re Going to Find the Monster
• Gretel the Wonder Mammoth
• Grumpy Monkey
• The Truth About Yeticorns
• 5 Funny Animals
• Don’t Say Elephant!
Diggersaurs: Mission to Mars
My Magic Family
• Harriet the Strongest Girl in the World
Poems Out Loud
Group 6 (Children born in 2019)
Clean Up
The Beastly Bunch
• When I Grow Up…Doctor
• The Three Wishes
• Wild Wild Wood
• Dog Loves Fairy Tales
• Pumpkin Soup
Drama Llama
• The Artist
Bog Baby
• The Greatest Show on Earth
• Designates a book new to the programme