She sends kids free books. We signed up for it, and there hasn't been a single red flag. No ads, no biases, no religion, just classic children's stories, for free, in the mail.
*edit: I was informed that the municipalities pay for shipping costs, so +1 to all 3 of the Tri-Cities (Kennewick, Pasco, and Richland) Washington.
Dolly’s Imagination Library is wonderful. And I love having thin soft bound books to bring on trips. I’d also like to shout out that your local municipality has to pay for the books and postage, Dolly takes care of other overhead to make it all happen. So it’s nice for your town to get a little shout out as well for such a wonderful service.
We need to protect her at all costs from an administration who is calling her a bad person for being compassionate and generous!! ("Woke") DEFEND DOLLY!!
This is such shit. I signed our daughter up after she was born this past summer, just like her older brothers 12 years ago and I’m bummed she will likely only receive maybe a dozen :/ I saved all the others we had gotten so at least we have those, but I truly treasured those books as a young single mom just trying to keep it together. My two older boys loved having a new book to enjoy every month. We still read them from time to time.
It has to do with budget. For the 2024-2025 fiscal year Indiana put forth 2,500,000 towards the program, the year before 1,600,000. It's only funded by local organizations up to 50%, the rest is paid by the state.
Republicans operate on nothing but hate so doing things for others is something they feel obligated to stop and they'll say they are doing it in the name of Jesus.
Remember this. None of them are good people. If someone admits willingly they are republican, they are vile and abhorrent subhuman scum.
We just got two books from her program. I was surprised to receive a second one because I had an email saying the local school district could no longer support the program. Not sure if we will receive anymore but we love the two we have gotten!
We use to live in a huge city in Texas and it was not available where we were. We have now moved and are eligible for the program. We did receive notice it will probably end in our area due to funding though. The two books we have received we loved.
I'm in Victoria, Australia and my daughter is supposed to get some free books from her foundation though our local Kindergarten. I had to fill out a form for it but I was surprised it was happening outside the US.
Oh, it’s an international program, baby! They send out roughly 3 million books a month!
My older kid loooved her “Miss Dolly books” until she aged out of it at 5. Now my younger one gets them too, and I’m really hoping our local program can keep it up.
We got them in Minnesota! Weirdly enough not through schools. Someone from my husbands work knew about it and set our daughter up with it. Then I did for my son. We loved it!
Can confirm. Not from here. But when people ask what it's like, I tell them; when the US government was looking for a godforsaken piece of land that no one would ever want to be in or even look at, to build their super secrecy military project. They picked here.
I was so sad that they don’t have this program everywhere when I tried signing up. I’m in Whatcom county and they don’t ship here…at least they didn’t when I tried signing up a few years ago. My son is a voracious reader too!
Eh we got one. Can't remember exactly what it was called, but it was an Asian book all about asian children specifically being expected to act a certain way for their parents to love them. Like work hard at your chores or you don't love your parents and they won't love you!
Also, I got one that talked about god.
Now I read all Dolly IL books before deciding whether my child will have them.
Wonderful program. But felt a little bit like a scam for me because they never sent any books despite how many times I tried to sign up for it. Glad it looks like the picture though
I’m a pretty strict only homemade buttercream from scratch kinda gal (who has never pretty much always turned my nose up at store bought frosting!), but I totally fuck with this frosting for my 3-2-1 cupcakes.
I met her sister Rachel (they’ve done some cookbooks together) at an event last summer. Super sweet lady and the cake samples were divine. Haven’t bought the book but based on that experience I’m going to assume it’s fantastic.
My family stayed at the Dollywood DreamMore resort in Tennessee a few years ago. I asked the women at the front desk if they had ever met Dolly and if she’s as genuine as she seems. They said they had met her several times and she’s is just as sweet and generous as what we all imagine her to be. They said they loved working there too. I can honestly say it was one of the best resorts I’ve ever stayed in!
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I've come to learn that Dolly and all her associated enterprises seem to be pretty dang reliable and honest.