Dolly Parton Comes to Australia
Children with access to good books from an early age perform better at school,research has shown. Children from birth to 5 years of age living in The Basin, Melbourne, can now receive a free book every month through the Dolly Parton Imagination Library, a Rotary project in partnership with United Way Australia.
Families can register their child by contacting the Rotary Club of Bayswater or through the link to the Imagination Library website.
Here's what one of the parents has to say:
"It's such a joy to receive a book each month for our now 5 month old daughter Phoenix! It's amazing that when reading to her even at this age, how responsive she is to the pictures and the tone of my voice. Thanks to Dolly Parton's Imagination Library we can read a wide range of age appropriate books to her each month until she is 5 YEARS old and really pave the way for her reading beyond those years."
Beth Campbell, The Basin