Verde Valley Imagination Library

Verde Valley Imagination Library (VVIL) is the local program partner of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, a book-gifting program for children under age five. Every month, a free age-appropriate book, labeled with the child’s name, is mailed directly to their home. Toddlers love to receive mail, to share their new book and to learn from the stories they read with their parents. It sounds almost too simple to be true, but when parents read with their children starting in infancy, learning to read is much easier. Parents can enroll their children online, by mail or at all Verde Valley Libraries.

Serving Camp Verde, Clarkdale, Cornville, Cottonwood, Jerome, Lake Montezuma, McGuireville, Rimrock, Sedona, Verde Village and the Village of Oak Creek

Why give books to babies?

  • A child's brain grows to 80% of adult size by age 3.
  • Vocabulary and language at age 3 predict school success.
  • Parents really are the first teachers!​

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