Free Imagination Library books will keep reaching Pikes Peak kids
The new Pikes Peak Literacy Foundation is taking over the Imagination Library affiliate for El Paso and Teller counties and hopes to grow enrollment from about 9,000 children to about 29,000.
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A new local nonprofit is taking the reins of Dolly Parton's Imagination Library in El Paso and Teller counties, KKTV 11 News reported. The Pikes Peak Literacy Foundation will run the affiliate so the free monthly books can keep going out to young children.
About 9,000 children are enrolled now. The foundation's aim is to grow that list toward about 29,000 across the two counties. The story is the handoff and the larger goal, not a promise that every eligible child is signed up yet.
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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library mails a free book to children who are signed up, from birth until they are about five. In El Paso and Teller counties, around Colorado Springs, a new local group is taking over that work. It is called the Pikes Peak Literacy Foundation. About 9,000 children are enrolled now. The foundation wants that number to grow to about 29,000, so more kids in those two counties get a book in the mail. The news is that the books are set to keep coming under the new local group.
- Why might a book in the mail feel different from a book you pick up at school?
- Who in your town might not have many books at home?
- What would you want a free monthly book to be about?
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