The Book Lady by Dave Hoekstra ,'The Rotarian'

I read this article in 'The Rotarian'. It was about the Book program Imagination Library that was started by Dolly Parton.It is a reading program for children birth to school age . It adresses illiteracy in areas that poverty keeps children from learning to read;it is for all children though. She states that even some who aren't poor can not read.This article is very informative. This program which works through the Rotary club handed out 4.5 million books to preschoolers in 43 states and provinces.The Imagination Library provides one free book per month to every child from birth to age five. One parent in the article says that her children get very excited when they get a new book in the mail with their names on it.She also said that when there are books in the house that she has read to them much more oftend. It was a really good article ;it flowed well, it was informative, and it appealed to me as a parent even though my kids are older now.Dolly Parton's inspiration for this program was because much of her own family did not know how to read including her father,Robert Lee Parton,who struggled to farm tobacco on dirt -poor land. The first book that is recieved in the program is 'The Little Engine That Could'.