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Help bring a free book every month to every child under five

Our goal is simple: get more books into the hands of more kids, funded by government investment — not by families. When more children learn to read before they start school, the tax dollars saved can exceed the cost of the program.
Enter your Zip Code to see the program’s status where you live—and open a ready-to-send message asking your elected officials to support universal access.

This site never asks you for money. We are not collecting donations and nothing is being sold. We simply help you send a quick note of support to the officials who fund these programs. No cost, no risk, no catch.

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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce donated $2 millionDolly Parton thanks Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce▶ to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. Your part costs nothing: ask your state to help every child participate. ❤
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library
Why it matters

The first five years help shape a child’s relationship with reading.

~90%
of a child’s brain develops before age five — the window when reading habits take root.
1.4M
more words heard by kindergarten when a child is read to daily — the “million word gap.”
4×
more likely to leave school without a diploma if not reading proficiently by third grade.
60
free books a consistently enrolled child owns by kindergarten — often a family’s first library.

Reading with children is the whole point

A book in the mail becomes a few minutes on a lap. Those shared minutes build vocabulary, attention, empathy, and the simple joy of stories — the foundation everything else in school is built on. The program puts the book in the home; families supply the magic.

Critical thinking in an age of AI

As more of the world hands its thinking to machines, the human ability to read deeply, question, and reason for oneself becomes more valuable, not less. That capacity starts early — with a child who learns to love reading, follow an argument, and imagine beyond the screen. Early books are how we raise independent thinkers.