Starting June 1, every Sonoma County child under 5 will be eligible to receive a free book every month from Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library.
A coalition of local organizations led by Community Foundation Sonoma County and First 5 Sonoma County, in partnership with the The Dollywood Foundation,worked 9 to 5 to get the program up and running countywide within 6 months.
The effort was celebrated at a Wednesday news conference in front of the Head Start Program South Park, where about a dozen preschoolers from Head Start and the Pasitos Playgroup kicked off the event by dancing for the crowd in front of two life-size cardboard cutouts of Dolly Parton.
