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Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, Scotland
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library gifts a free, high-quality, age-appropriate book every month to children from birth until age five delivered through the post to their home.
The programme is a partnership between Dolly Parton’s charity, The Dollywood Foundation UK, and local community organisations. Each Imagination Library is championed and operated by people in the community, making sure it complements existing local projects and services.
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library gifts a free, high-quality, age-appropriate book every month to children from birth until age five delivered through the post to their home.
The programme is a partnership between Dolly Parton’s charity, The Dollywood Foundation UK, and local community organisations. Each Imagination Library is championed and operated by people in the community, making sure it complements existing local projects and services.
How the programme works
The Dollywood Foundation UK works with a wide range of partners such as local authorities, charities, early years settings, libraries and place-based organisations to establish local Imagination Library programmes.
When we partner with a community, we just ask that they cover the £2.16 per child per month. The Dollywood Foundation coordinates the book mailing, covering administrative and operating costs for the programme. Without this contribution, it would cost an estimated £143 per child per year.
When the Imagination Library launches in a community, it is available free to all families, helping to build strong connections and inspire a shared love of reading.
What Our Local Programme Partners Do
Promote programme
& register eligible Children
Process the
monthly book invoice
Provide Support to
Families as needed
The difference we can make
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library closes literacy gaps, strengthens home literacy environments, inspires reading globally and builds positive family reading habits. Our Groundbreaking International study of the Imagination Library found just 10 books can spark measurable gains in early literacy, vocabulary, and family reading routines—and the greatest impact appears in communities facing the highest barriers.
Partner with us to give the gift of books to more children in Scotland!
With a partnership approach, we can work together to get books into the homes, hands and hearts of children everywhere. We need local champions in communities across Scotland to start or fund a programme, or connect us to key people who can.
The Imagination Library is an easy, cost-effective method of impacting the lives of thousands of children in a community, so join us to bring it to yours.
Gifting a book is simple, but the journey it sparks is beyond imagination…
Get in touch now to find out how you can start an Imagination Library in your area of Scotland.
The first step is always the hardest, but you’ll never know unless you try…
– Dolly Parton