Raising Readers in the Heartland

Inspired by the generosity of a global movement, Beaverdale Books is proud to offer Giving Sundays during the month of November.

Beaverdale Books will donate 20% of the day’s sales to Raising Readers in the Heartland whose mission is to inspire a life-long love of reading by providing new, quality books for ALL children from birth through the age of ten who live in Polk County. Raising Readers in the Heartland partners with Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library (DPIL) to inspire a love of reading by gifting one book per month, free of charge, to children from birth to age five who currently live in Polk County. Representatives will greet customers from 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.

In 1995, Dolly Parton launched her Imagination Library in 1995, to benefit the children of her home county in East Tennessee, USA. Dolly’s vision was to foster a love of reading among her county’s preschool children and their families. The new program gave each child a specially selected book each month. Since its launch, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library has set and surpassed many goals and milestones. The first book order in 1995 totaled just over 1,700. Today, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library sends more than one million books per month to children around the world.