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Carolyn Larsen and her 2-year-old daughter, Adelaide, check their mailbox just about every day.<\/p>\n

When a children\u2019s book addressed to the toddler finally arrives, the girl bursts with excitement.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe has her own little library in our living room,\u201d Larsen said. \u201cThere\u2019s a box full of all the books, and she has her little special area.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adelaide\u2019s books come from the Dolly Parton\u2019s Imagination Library, which seeks to inspire a love of reading by providing free books to children from birth to age 5 with support from local community partners. The First Things First Gila Regional Partnership Council<\/a> funds the program through the Gila County Library District.<\/p>\n

Larsen, whose family lives in Globe, had heard about the program before she had children, so she enrolled her daughter in it soon after she was born. And this year, Adelaide\u2019s little sister, Scottie, followed her footsteps and recently became a member of the Imagination Library at just 4 weeks old.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m hoping that they are able to become avid readers,\u201d the girls\u2019 mother said. \u201cThat will help them in so many aspects of their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

With each book Adelaide gets, Larsen can see that her daughter\u2019s joy of reading grows. \u201cShe will go and sit in a corner \u2013 even when she turned one \u2013 she would go and sit in a corner and grab the books that we got from the Imagination Library and just sit and read them by herself,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Nowadays, Adelaide also reads books in her own toddler language to her mom.<\/p>\n

Scientific research has shown that the experiences of children between birth and age 5, when the brain develops rapidly, will have a lasting impact on their lives. It is during those early years that the Imagination Library encourages children to read 1,000 books before they enter kindergarten, which usually happens at
\n5 years old.<\/p>\n

Children who participate in the program can get picture frames and stickers to place on them at their local library. They also get a sheet where they can list up to 100 books that they\u2019ve read. With a little help from her mom, Adelaide has finished reading 300 books.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe goal is to get like 10 stickers, and then you will have read 1,000 books before kindergarten,\u201d Larsen said. \u201cThe stickers go all around the picture frame, and then you can put your child\u2019s picture in it when they\u2019ve completed it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like her big sister\u2019s, Scottie\u2019s first book to arrive in the mail will be \u201cThe Little Engine That Could.\u201d Then a variety of titles will arrive subsequently, one each month. Larsen has only praise for the program.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s so great, especially for the rural communities that don\u2019t have access to a lot of resources,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd so, I feel very lucky to be a part of it and to have access to it.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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