Every Sandy Lake First Nation's child, ages 0 to 4, are now being registered with Dolly Parton's Imagination Library thanks to the Sandy Lake Board of Education. Joining the Imagination Library means that each month each child receives a children's book in the mail (see how it works below).

Contact information found at the Imagiation Library web site:

Sandy Lake Board of Education
PO Box 8 , Sandy Lake 
P0V 1V0, ON
Phone: 807-774-1098
Fax: 807-774-1166
Email: margaretfiddler@knet.ca
 
Contact: Fiddler,Margaret
Local champion: Sandy Lake Board of Education

For more information about Dolly Parton's Imagination Library in Canada http://imaginationlibrary.com/canada

Videos 

Imagination Library / Dolly
Part 1 Part2
The Penguin Players
The Book Lady

Dolly's Songs  

I Believe in You
Friends
You Gotta Be Ready
You Can Do It
Responsibility

From http://imaginationlibrary.com/canada/howworks.php

The Story of Dolly's Imagination Library

In 1996, Dolly Parton launched an exciting new effort to benefit the children of her home county in east Tennessee. Dolly wanted to foster a love of reading among her county’s preschool children and their families. She wanted children to be excited about books and to feel the magic that books can create. Moreover, she could insure that every child would have books, regardless of their family’s financial situation.

So she decided to give a brand new, age appropriate book each month to every child under 5 in Sevier County and mail it directly to their home. With the arrival of every child’s first book, he or she could now experience the joy of finding their very own book in their mail box. These moments continue each month until the child turns 5—and in their very last month in the program they receive a special "graduation" book.

Needless to say the experience has been a smashing success. So much so that many other communities clamored to provide the Imagination Library to their children. Dolly thought long and hard about it and decided her Foundation should develop a way for other communities to participate. The Foundation asked a blue ribbon panel of experts to select just the right books and secured Penguin Group USA to be the exclusive publisher for the Imagination Library. Moreover a database was built to keep track of the information.

Consequently, in March of 2000 she stood at the podium of The National Press Club in Washington, D.C. and revealed the plan for other communities to provide the Imagination Library to their children. And as only Dolly can say it, she wanted to “put her money where her mouth is – and with such a big mouth that’s a pretty large sum of money” and provide the books herself to the children of Branson, Missouri and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina – communities where her businesses now operate. If other leaders in their communities were willing to do the same, well something big might just happen.

In November 2006, Dolly bounced on a stage in Toronto to announce that the Imagination Library will now be available to children in Canadian communities. For the first time, the program crossed an international border with the goal to make the program Canada’s own unique attempt to instill a love for reading in all of her children. Although The Dollywood Foundation of Canada will coordinate the program, an agreement was reached with the Canadian-based organization, Invest in Kids, to help bring the Imagination Library to as many Canadian preschoolers as possible.

Here’s how it works:

A community must make the program accessible to all preschool children in their area. The community pays for the books and mailing, promotes the program, registers the children, and enters the information into the database.

From there The Dollywood Foundation of Canada takes over and manages the system to deliver the books to the home. You can find out more of the operational details on other pages in this website – so what are you waiting for? Hundreds of communities are providing books to hundreds of thousands of children.  We'd love for you to be part of our Imagination Library family too!