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).
2024 Book List – Canada
Group 1 (Children born in 2024)
Baby! Talk!
• Same Same
• Sometimes We Think You are a Monkey
Pudgy Pat A Cake
Sleep Tight, Polar Bear (Little Loves)
• Checkers & Dot at the Zoo
Look at the Animals
Who Says Quack?
• Anne’s Numbers
Look Look!
+•Δ Upsy-Daisy-Baby
Group 2 (Children born in 2023)
• Ready for Winter
• Where’s Baby?
• Anne’s Colours
• A Day With Nellie
• Counting with Barefoot Critters
+ “Slowly, Slowly, Slowly,” Said the Sloth
Richard Scarry’s First 100 Words
• Blankie
• Skinnamarink
•Δ Canadian Animals in Colours
• A Northern Alphabet
Llama Llama Red Pajama
Group 3 (Children born in 2022)
+ Snow Falls
+ Wild Babies
+ One Elephant Went Out to Play
+ Too Much Not Enough
+ What Does Little Crocodile Say?
+ A Bedtime Yarn
+ Sam Sorts
+ Crocodile Hungry
+•Δ ABC of Canada
+•*Δ In the Sky at Nighttime
+• Peanut Butter and Jelly
+•*Δ It’s Time for Bed
Group 4 (Children born in 2021)
• Counting on Snow
• You’re in Good Paws
• King Mouse
• Carson Crosses Canada
• No No Baby
• The Secret Fawn
•* My Lala
•+*Δ Benny the Bananasaurus Rex
•+Δ Big Bear Hug
• We Adopted a Baby Chick
•+* Métis Like Me
Raindrops to Rainbow
Group 5 (Children born in 2020)
• Great Too
• Bear Wants to Sing
• Scaredy Squirrel Visits the Doctor
• My Best Friend
• Darkest Dark
• The Aquanaut
•* On the Trapline
• The Care and Keeping of Grandmas
•+ I Am A Meadow Mermaid
•+ Mama’s Sleeping Scarf
•+ The Three Little Mittens
Coat of Many Colors
Group 6 (Children born in 2019)
• When the Moon Comes
• Fairy Science
• The Not-So-Great Outdoors
• In the Clouds
• Mr. Mole Moves In
•+ Dim Sum Palace
•+* Freddie the Flyer
• This is Ruby
• Red Sky at Night
• On This Airplane
• Count On Me
+ Signifies a new book to the program
• Signifies a title 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, and Inhabit Media