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).
2025 Book List – Canada
Group 6 (Children born in 2020)
+ Count on Me
+ Dim Sum Palace
■+ Freddie the Flyer
+ In the Clouds
+ On this Airplane
•+ There Are No Ants in this Book
+ This is Ruby
+ Mr. Mole Moves In
■•+Δ Mnoomin maan’gowing/The Gift of Mnoomin
•+ Frostfire
+ When the Moon Comes
Group 5 (Children born in 2021)
+ My Best Friend
+ The Three Little Mittens
+ I Am A Meadow Mermaid
+ Scaredy Squirrel Visits the Doctor
+ The Care and Keeping of Grandmas
+ The Darkest Dark
+ Bear Wants to Sing
+ Mama’s Sleeping Scarf
■+ On the Trapline
•+Δ My Day with Gong Gong
•+Δ Stella Queen of Snow
Coat of Many Colors
Group 4 (Children born in 2022)
A Story for Small Bear
My Dog Laughs
+ Solutions for Cold Feet
+ We Adopted a Baby Chick
■+ My Lala
+ No No Baby
+Δ Big Bear Hug
+ Carson Crosses Canada
+ The Secret Fawn
+ Fox and Racoon
•+ Towed by Toad
■•+Δ Mii maanda ezhi-gkendmaanh / This Is How I Know
■+ Métis Like Me
Group 3 (Children born in 2023)
• The Animal Song
+ Sam Sorts
+ Crocodile Hungry
+ Peanut Butter and Jelly
+ What Does Little Crocodile Say?
+ One Elephant Went Out to Play
+ A Bedtime Yarn
+ Nancy Knows
■•+ It Bears Repeating
•+Δ Llamas With Lemonade
•+Δ One Rainy Day
•+ Honk Honk Beep Beep – Putter Put
Group 2 (Children born in 2024)
Clap Your Hands
Sleep Tight with the Very Hungry Caterpillar
+ Where’s Baby?
+Δ Canadian Animals in Colours
+ Anne’s Colors
Richard Scarry’s 100 First Words
+ Skinnamarink
+Δ ABC of Canada
+ Blankie (Narwhal & Jelly)
■•+Δ Boozhoo! / Hello!
•+Δ West Coast Wild Baby Animals
Llama Llama Red Pajama
+ A Northern Alphabet
Group 1 (Children born in 2025)
+ Same Same
+ Sometimes We Think You Are a Monkey
+ Checkers & Dot at the Zoo
Pudgy Pat A Cake
Look at the Animals
+ Anne’s Numbers
Baby! Talk!
Sleep Tight, Polar Bear
Who Says Quack?
Look! Look!
+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