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The Dollywood Foundation
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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library launched in 1995 in her hometown of Sevier County, Tennessee and has become the preeminent early childhood book gifting program in the world. The flagship program of The Dollywood Foundation has gifted over 150 million free books in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, The Republic of Ireland and Australia. The Imagination Library mails more than 1.7 million high-quality, age-appropriate books each month to registered children from birth to age five. Dolly envisioned creating a lifelong love of reading and inspiring them to dream. The impact of the program has been widely researched and results suggest positive increases in key early childhood literacy metric. Penguin Random House is the exclusive publisher for Dolly Parton's Imagination Library.