Another in Alabama calls her "Ms Dolly". Across the globe in Australia, a toddler with speech delays delighted her family with her first word - "orange" - after she and her twin sister received a free book in the post about colours. It came from Imagination Library, the literacy programme begun by late global superstar Dolly Parton.

In the wake of Dolly Parton's passing, Arkansas' Imagination Library is asking the community to help support Northwest Arkansas' programs to avoid a pause in services.

Dolly Parton is known for many things, but her biggest impact is putting books in the hands of millions of kids.

The Manitowoc Public Library's free 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten program helps families build early literacy skills before kids start school.

As a parent, it is not easy to resist the digital tide heading for our children, especially when the world around our youth has become heavily digitized. Tablets, games, animated shows, and interactive books are ubiquitous and I do believe that, sometimes ...

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The administration has rebranded our library as a communal space for doing almost everything except reading. A student looking for a book in a school library. Take a peek into the library at Burlingame High School, located on the northern edge of Silicon ...

Summer reading program participants at Montgomery County (Md.) Public Libraries choose brand-new books to take home, courtesy of Friends of the Library, Montgomery County. Photo: Jason Turner/Montgomery County (Md.) Public Libraries Summer reading program ...