​About Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library:
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free, high-quality books to children from birth to age five, no matter their family’s income. After launching in 1995, the program grew quickly. First books were only distributed to children living in Sevier County, Tennessee where Dolly grew up. It became such a success that in 2000 a national replication effort was underway.
​By 2003, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library had mailed one million books. It would prove to be the first of many millions of books sent to children around the world.

​Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library of Canada is a free book gifting program devoted to inspiring a love of reading in the hearts of children everywhere. Each month, enrolled children receive a high quality, age appropriate book in the mail, free of charge. Children receive books from birth to age five.
From a Toronto stage in November of 2006, Dolly Parton gleefully announced the Canadian expansion of her Imagination Library. It was the first international push for the organization. The development was thanks, in part, to an early agreement with the Canadian-based organization, Invest in Kids which proved to be just the beginning. Program coverage in Canada spans across Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Northwest Territories, Ontario, Saskatchewan and Yukon Territories.
Each year, more books featuring Canadian authors and illustrators are introduced into the program. Additionally, titles with themes and subjects that appeal to the Canadian readers are added.

Click Here to download and watch a Video on the program or view the video below.

You can register to take part in this program by visiting the library or by texting the program liaison:
​Julie Shaw at 705-358-9910

The 2023 nominees for the Evergreen Award are:

1. Cobalt: Cradle of the Demon Metals, Birth of a Mining Superpower by Charlie Angus 
2. A Convergence of Solitudes by Anita Anand 
3. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands written & illustrated by Kate Beaton 
4. Her First Palestinian: and Other Stories by Saeed Teebi 
5. Mad Honey by Katie Welch 
6. Sea of Tranquility: A Novel by Emily St. John Mandel 
7. Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces by Elamin Abdelmahmoud 
8. This is Assisted Dying: A Doctor’s Story of Empowering Patients at the End of Life by Dr. Stefanie Green 
9. Toufah: The Woman Who Inspired an African #MeToo Movement by Toufah Jallow, with Kim Pittaway 
10. ​Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation by Andrew Stobo Sniderman and Douglas Sanderson 

For more information on these titles, visit the Ontario Library Association Evergreen site.