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Activity Corner: Easy Butterfly Craft
Here is an easy spring time craft. Take a nature walk with your child and notice the beautiful butterflies that show up this time of year. Then, talk with your little one about what you saw and create these simple butterflies at home! You will need: Paper coffee...
Sharing Books with Young Children
Sharing Books with Young Children It is never too early to begin instilling the love of reading in children. Even when children are too young to understand the words, it's important to find ways to share books with babies and toddlers. Babies enjoy hearing songs and...
Check Out Our Winter Newsletter!
Hello Dolly Parton's Imagination Library family and friends! Our winter newsletter is out and ready to be viewed by YOU. In this issue, you can find information on our upcoming Toddler Fests and other exciting winter events. Also, you can learn about what to read to...
Photo Albums: Your Family’s Story Waiting to be Told
There may not be words printed beneath each photograph, but chances are, you know a story you can pass along to your child: the trip to Chicago in that old Plymouth Dart, the Christmas you had an emergency appendectomy, fishing in Nana’s lake. Research has shown that...
A Spring Reading Craft: Planting a Curious Garden
The Curious Garden is a story about a boy's dream and how one small person can help change the world. The ground may still be frozen up north, but here in Florida it will be planting time soon. If you’d like to try an easy spring craft, read Peter Brown’s beautiful...
Doctor’s Orders: Read, read, read!
If you need a pat on the back for the time you spend reading to your child, Dr. Mehmet Oz, renowned physician and co-author of YOU: Raising Your Child (Simon & Schuster, 2010), offers this advice: “We can’t say it often enough: Read aloud. Read aloud. Read aloud....
What to Read…at Bedtime!
As parents we are all familiar with this nightly routine: she’s bathed, her teeth are brushed, and she’s settled in your lap for a few moments of reading before you say goodnight. The last thing you want is a bedtime story that makes her want to jump up and...
Telling the Story Together
When you read your child a bedtime story, you’re supposed to open the book and read what’s on the page, right? Not necessarily. Early learning experts agree that your child benefits as much from having a conversation about the pictures as they do from learning the...
Books & Cookies: A Perfect Drizzly Day Duo
Hurricane season may be almost over, but the next time rain keeps you indoors, reach for one of these much-loved books: The Umbrella Party (Groundwood), by Janet Lunn, The Umbrella (Penguin), by Jan Brett, or Taro Yashima’s Caldecott Honor Book, Umbrella (Viking)....
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