Imagination Library Notes - Orrville Area United Way

Imagination Library Notes
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Help Spread the Word!
Are you and your child enjoying the books
from the Dolly Parton Imagination Library?
Tell us at: vicki.prunty@oauw.org
Tell your friends with young children too.
If they live in Orrville, Dalton, Marshallville, Kidron, Sterling, Apple Creek or
North Lawrence, their children under 5 can
receive the books too!
Notify the Post Office and Orrville Area
United Way.
Address Changes may take six weeks.
20 Minute Challenge
Reading to children just 20 minutes a day from
birth to age 5 means they will have accumulated
600 hours of pre-literacy training before
kindergarten! Those hours have a
major impact on future school success. Think you can
do it? Challenge yourself! Reading time might just
become your favorite time of the day!
Themes & Concepts Used in Choosing Books
for the Program:
Year One:
Bright, big, colorful, board pages, rhyme & rhythm,
simple, point & say, playful sounds
Year Two:
Repetition, predictability, real photos, colors, letters,
numbers, nursery rhymes, body awareness, motor skills
Year Three:
Wordless tell-your-own, Values, character, Issues:
emotions, colors, letters, numbers, nursery rhymes
Year Four:
More complex stories, diversity, differences, play,
humor, fun, nursery rhymes & poetry
Year Five:
School readiness skills, rhymes & poetry, science
concepts, pictures used for words, thanks, appreciation,
folk tales
Braille Book Program
Is your child a potential braille reader under six years
of age? Are you visually impaired or blind and the
parent or guardian of a child under six year of age?
If you answered yes to either question, apply now for
the Braille Tales Print/Braille Book Program! Books
are limited and enrollment is on a first come/first
serve basis. Apply Now! http://www.aph.org/
dolly-partons-imagination-library/apply/
Audio Books
Thanks to the APH/Dolly Parton’s Imagination
Library Partnership and the support of Penguin
Group USA, the Accessible Books website offers a
growing collection of audio files of Imagination
Library books available as free downloads at
http://www.aph.org/dolly-partonsimagination-library/
"Keep your
footsies safe and
your nests
comfy!"
Happy Feet For Kids provides shoes, socks, and winter boots to
children and youth from income-eligible families (175% of the poverty
level). Each enrolled student is eligible for 2 pairs of shoes or 1 pair of
shoes and 1 pair of winter boots per year, as well as the chance to pick
out awesome new socks provided by members of our community. Since
2012 we have provided 1,355 pairs of shoes and boots and many more
pairs of socks. All the socks are donated
Sweet Dreams For Kids provides new sheets,
blankets, bath towels, and pillow cases to children
and youth from income-eligible families (175% of
the poverty level).
Percy’s Backpack Program provides food for the
weekend in backpacks for 42 Orrville Elementary and 15
Orrville Middle School students whose families are
experiencing food insecurity.
For more information families may contact the
Orrville Area United Way.
140 East Market Street
Orrville, Ohio 44667
(330) 683-8181 Or visit our website: www.orrvilleareaunitedway.org
(Recipients must live in Orrville, Dalton or Marshallville)
There are many reasons why reading to and with young
children is important. Chief among them is that
children who start to develop strong reading skills
when they are young are more likely to achieve
success during their school years and throughout
their adult life. Many young children do not have
the opportunity to benefit from being able to read a book
with a caring adult. By the end of 3rd grade, many of those
children are still struggling to learn to read, when they
should be reading to learn.
http://www.orrvilleareaunitedway.org/
140 E. Market St., Orrville, OH 44667
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330-683-8181
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library
2016 Blue Ribbon Selections
United States of America
The first book a child receives is The Little Engine That Could (customized version)
The month a child turns 5 they will receive Look Out Kindergarten, Here I Come! (customized version)
Some groups contain over 12 titles due to supplemental titles
Group 6 (Children born in 2011)
If I Built a Car or One Cool
Friend
This Monster Cannot Wait
Fly Butterfly
As an Oak Tree Grows
Tale of Peter Rabbit
+Owl Moon
*Last Stop on Market Street
Betty Bunny Didn’t Do It
Tarra & Bella
*The Gruffalo
*+Hooray Pinata
Group 5 (Children born in 2012)
Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon
The Perfect Present
*+Oh No Gotta Go or
Legend of the Paintbrush
Luke Goes to Bat
Miss Maple’s Seeds
Otis & the Puppy
*+Peace is an Offering
Ten Thank-You Letters
Runaway Tomato
*The First Strawberries
Not your Typical Dragon
Caterina and the Lemonade
Stand
Group 4 (Children born in 2013)
Meet Me at the Moon
Read to Tiger
Old Bear and His Cub
Truck Stop
Llama Llama & the Bully Goat
*+Abuela
Pretend
Extraordinary Jane
+Snowy Day
*Max & the Tagalong Moon Ginger Bread Man Loose on Peanut Butter & Cupcake
the Fire Truck
Group 3 (Children born in 2014)
Little Owl’s Night
Maple
+Just One More
+Jake at Gymnastics
*Llama Llama Gram and
Grandpa
King Jack and the Dragon
*Following Papa’s Song
Tomie de Paola’s Mother Goose
My No, No, No Day
Mine-O-Saur
I Am a Rainbow
ABCers
Group 2 (Children born in 2015)
Night-Night Forrest Friends
Sassy: Let’s Count
My Farm Friends
Little Cub
*+I Love My Daddy Because
ABC Look at Me
Little Sleepy Head
Good Night Gorilla
+Sassy: Baby’s First Words
Dog Wants to Play
Llama Llama Red Pajama
Little Poems for Tiny Ears
Group 1 (Children born in 2016)
Whose Baby Am I?
+Baby Sounds
Winnie-the-Pooh’s Opposites
Look Look!
Peek A Book Morning or Cor- Llama Llama Nighty Night My First
duroy Goes to the Doctor
Songs
*+I Love My Mommy
Because
Baby Signs
Where’s My Nose?
Sassy: Bedtime for Baby
Bridges of Wayne and Holmes
Bridges Out of Poverty is a
framework for understanding
poverty. It is about
appreciating economic
diversity. If we can just
shift our thinking about
economics, then we
have the power to
shape our reality.
Having or not having doesn't
change your thinking.
Our goal: To positively impact the
education and lives of individuals in
poverty.
The Bridges Model is not a program.
People and organizations use
Bridges to develop programs and
strategies that:
 improve relationships at the
individual level
 improve outcomes at the
organizational level
 change systems at the
community level
* Signifies a new book to the program | + Signifies a bilingual English/Spanish title
Sponsor a Child
Please help us keep the Imagination Library alive and well in eastern Wayne County. For just $25 you can make sure a
local child from birth to age 5 receives one book every month! Consider a donation to United Way. Each child counts!
http://www.orrvilleareaunitedway.org/
140 E. Market St., Orrville, OH 44667
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330-683-8181