Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is … FREE in the Mat-Su!
It sounds almost too simple to be true, but by reading regularly with your children during their early years – from birth! – you are giving them the biggest boost toward success they will receive.
Mat-Su Imagination Library will send free, age appropriate books to your mailing address every month, until your child turns 5 years old.
Sign up now! If your child is…
• age birth to 5 years old
• a current resident of the Mat-Su Borough.
Research all over the country shows positive results in terms of Imagination Library improving readiness for school.
For change of address: You MUST first complete a "Change of Address" form at the post office, then click 'Change Address' button above. If you have forgotten your username and password, e-mail us your new address.
Babies on Track Premiere
Babies on Track Video and Baby Board Books
Best Beginnings created a 14-minute video and two baby board
books to foster early learning and healthy brain development in Alaska
babies. Interacting with babies during everyday activities is an opportunity
to help them learn language, sounds, and social skills. The two board books which accompany the video are:
Our Alaska Family (photographs of baby faces)
Let’s Talk Alaska! (Alaska objects).
Sets of the DVD and board books were distributed free to families with children under 2 years of age at a Premiere showing February 25th. Set can now be purchased through Best Beginnings.
There’s more the Mat-Su Imagination Library does… Mat-Su community volunteers organize enrollment events, family fun sessions, coordinate with local agencies, and raise funds to sponsor Mat-Su children in the program. Plus, maintain a current email address with us and receive free activity sheets and reading tips for your Imagination Library books.
Join our team! We’d love to have you on our team. Mat-Su Imagination Library needs volunteers to help raise funds, organize enrollment and family events, and to help spread the word. Email us.
Mat-Su families love Imagination Library ... "My little guy loves his August gift, A Place called Kindergarten. He goes to kindergarten next year so it really made his day. He even memorized the rainbow song shared in the book!!! Thank you!!" ~ Ashley Kelly "Thank you so much for coordinating this program. I'm sure you know what a difference this program can make in the lives of children whose parents do not buy them books. My daughter was so surprised when we read her first book, the little engine. I enjoyed it too since I had not seen it since I was a child. She now knows 'I think I can, I think I can' like the little engine that could. The pictures in the book are great for discussion. She enjoys 'reading' the book back to me after I've read it to her and I can tell that she paid attention since she can repeat some of the lines verbatim. Thanks again for participating in this program and for giving kids the gift of reading in the MSB (like I always say, you're never bored if you're a reader)." ~
The Simeroth Family -
Elena, Tony, and Skyler Jade
"Dream More, Learn More, Care More, Be More." -- Dolly Parton
