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The Imagination Library

&. “The Book Lady”. The Imagination Library. What do you think of when you hear “Dolly Parton?”. Do you think this?. Or maybe this?. Video clip: youtube.com. Video clip: youtube.com. But, have you ever thought about her like this?. Video clip: The Imagination Library.

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The Imagination Library

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  1. & “The Book Lady” The Imagination Library

  2. What do you think of when you hear “Dolly Parton?” Do you think this? Or maybe this? Video clip: youtube.com Video clip: youtube.com But, have you ever thought about her like this? Video clip: The Imagination Library

  3. Growing Up Dolly • As a young child Parton often escaped the harsh life of poverty through her imagination: • Reading • Writing • Songwriting and music (CMT, 2011)

  4. Her Career • She first starting singing on a Knoxville, TN radio station at age 11. • She recorded her first single on Gold Band Records and began to make a name for herself in her local area. • As soon as she graduated in 1964 she moved to Nashville dreaming of making it “big” • The clip used at the beginning of the presentation is from her first big time job on Porter Wagner’s show in 1967. (CMT, 2011)

  5. Breaking Away • In 1974 she left the Wagner show. • After leaving the show her career began to take off. She won several awards Recorded many new albums and singles Began to star in movies, her first being 1980’s Nine to Five, for which she received an Oscar Nomination. (CMT, 2011)

  6. The Entertainer • Country music artist; singer and songwriter who has won countless awards for her music and songwriting (CMT.com: Dolly Parton, 2011) • Movie and television star Film and television Appearance media Album cover art Images: http://dollypartonmusic.net/community/photos?page=2 and http://dollypartonmusic.net/discography

  7. “The Book Lady” • Founder and face of The Imagination Library since 1996. • Parton sawa need for a program that encouraged young children to fall in love with books. She knew that encouraging parents to read with their children would be the best way to encourage children to read. • Her father never learned to read. • He inspired her to turn her attention to a program that would encourage reading. (A chat with “the Book Lady”, 2003)

  8. The Beginning Founded by Dolly Parton, 1996. • Began in Parton’s hometown area of Sevier County in East Tennessee. (Sparking the imagination, 2010) • Parton is quoted as saying that “reading is an experience….It allowed me to travel far beyond our little mountain cabin long before I had the means to travel.” . (Sparking the imagination, 2010)

  9. How does the Program work? Children from birth to age 5 • Books provided to children once a month in participating communities. (Sparking the imagination, 2010) • By kindergarten children in the program will have a collection of 60 books. (Sparking the imagination, 2010) • In 2010 the Imagination Library will have given away seven million books. (Sparking the imagination, 2010) (Piper, 1990) (Carlson, 2001) Parton giving away another Book. (provided by http:// www.aph.org/imagination-library/)

  10. More on the Foundation • A local agency teams up with the Imagination Library Foundation to sponsor the program in their area. • That agency will then provide local families with brochures using local public places of interest. • According to David Dotson, executive Director of the Dollywood Foundation, “A key to making the program a success is ensuring that the parents see the books as a gift, not a social service.” (Milliot, 2003)

  11. The Imagination Library representatives get families interested most often by giving mothers a brochure and a book right there at the hospital when their child is born. (Milliot, 2003) • Agencies that sponsor the Imagination Library vary from the United Way to the more recent addition of the Bureau of Indian Affairs signing on to run the Library in some of its Indian communities. (Milliot, 2003)

  12. Expansion • Once a community signs on to the Imagination Library other communities around them begin to show interest. • The Library has expanded to other countries as well; they include, of course, the U.S., Canada, and Great Britain. (Milliot, 2003)

  13. References CMT. (October 18, 2009). Dolly Parton. Retrieved October 15, 2011, from: http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/parton_dolly/artist.jhtml Carlson, N. (2001). Look Out Kindergarten Here I Come! (Reprint). New York: Penguin Group. [Dolly Parton promotional Images]. Retrieved October 15, 2011, from: http://dollypartonmusic.net/community/photos?page=2 [Dolly Parton Album Covers]. (1980, 2008,2011). Retrieved October 29, 2011, from: http://dollypartonmusic.net/discography

  14. The Dollywood Foundation. (2011). Dolly’s Media Center: Part 1 Educational Video. Retrieved October 17, 2011, from: http://www.imaginationlibrary.com/usa/medi a_center.php [Dolly Parton Promotional Image]. Retrieved October 15, 2011, from http://www.aph.org/imagination-library Gilbert, B. (Producer), & Higgins, C. (Director). 1980. Nine to Five [Motion Picture]. USA: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. Retrieved October 17, 2011, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWKwuZX1tNo Milliot, Jim. (2003). It Starts with Literacy: Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library helps build the reading habit among kids and parents. Publishers Weekly 250 (1), 26.

  15. Opryland, USA. (Producer). (1974). Jolene [That Good Ole Nashville Music]. Nashville: Showbiz, Inc. Retrieved October 17, 2011, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1plvBR02wDs Piper, W. (1990). The Little Engine That Could. (Miniature Edition) New York: Platt and Munk.

  16. Reading Today. (2003). A Chat with “the Book Lady”. Reading Today, 20 (4), 4. Reading Today. (2010). Sparking the Imagination: Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library program presents 25 millionth book. Reading Today, 28 (1), 2-2.

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