Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a nationwide book gifting program that mails free, high-quality books to children from birth to age five, no matter their family’s income.

The reading program is a way to get books into the hands of children, ages birth to 5 years and help develop early in life a love for reading.

Children can still enroll in the program at any time by visiting the website, imaginationlibrary. com, or by picking up an application at the library The Eufaula Memorial Library hosted a launch party for the local Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library on Tuesday, Feb. 6. Thirty-one children were in attendance, some from the Muskogee Creek Nation Headstart.

The children listened to a story read by Branch Manager Amanda Grantham, had punch and cupcakes provided by East Central Electric Co-op and the Checotah Foundation for Academic Excellence, and took their first book home from the Imagination Library.