08/26/2026
📚💕 **THANK YOU, DOLLY** 💕📚
Every year I share **Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library** with my daycare families. I tell parents about it, encourage them to sign their kiddos up, and usually remind everyone about it more than once. 😂 Because honestly… **FREE BOOKS for our little learners?! YES PLEASE!** 📚❤️
But sharing it today feels a whole lot different.
Dolly gave the world so much through her music, but as someone who spends every day with little ones, I have always had such a special appreciation for what she did for children.
She understood just how important it is to get books into little hands. ❤️
At Miss Roxy’s, reading time is rarely quiet. 😂 We point at pictures, ask a million questions, talk over each other, sometimes read the same book over and over and OVER again, and occasionally don't even make it through the actual story. But THAT is what early literacy looks like. Those little moments are where children learn new words, use their imaginations, make connections and, most importantly, learn to **LOVE books.**
And Dolly helped make those moments possible in millions of homes. 🥹
I just think there is something incredibly special about using your success to make sure little children have books of their very own. A book might seem like such a small thing, but when you work with children, you know it isn't small at all.
So today I just want to say **thank you, Dolly.** 💕
Thank you for believing in our littlest learners. Thank you for understanding how important those first five years are. Thank you for putting books into homes that may not otherwise have had them. And thank you to everyone who continues the work of the **Imagination Library** and keeps this amazing gift going.
And because I tell my daycare families every year, I'm going to say it again… 😂❤️
**SIGN THOSE BABIES UP!** 📚📚📚
Here in Indiana, children ages **birth through 5** can receive a FREE, age-appropriate book in the mail every month through Dolly Parton's Imagination Library.
👉 https://imaginationlibrary.com/indiana/
Read the books. Let them turn the pages. Let them pick the same story 100 times. Let them interrupt you to tell you what they see in the pictures. Let books become part of their childhood. ❤️
**Thank you, Dolly, for helping so many little minds grow and giving so many children the chance to dream a little bigger.** 📚🌈💕
What a beautiful legacy to leave behind.