A parent may obtain a registration form at any Sullivan County Public Library: Bristol, Avoca, Kingsport, Carver, Sullivan County Library in Blountville and branches in Bloomingdale, Bluff City, Colonial Heights and Sullivan Gardens. Complete the form and mail to Sullivan County Imagination Library/Kingsport Chamber Foundation, PO Box 1403, Kingsport, TN 37662.
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The Library Committee meets each year to select the books for the Imagination Library.
Love of reading and learning; regard for diversity of people, their roles, culture, and environment; promotion of self-esteem and confidence, appreciation of art and aesthetics. Each series of books should contain certain characteristics specific to their age appropriateness including:
Year One
- Vision - bright, big, colorful
- Touch - board pages
- Rhyme and rhythm
- Simple - easy to use
- Minimal text - point and say
- Playful sound
- Nurture - attachment- lullaby themes
Year Two
- Continue concepts from year one and build upon them
- Repetition and predictability - generate language
- Motor skills
- "Self-help" activities - things children can do, things familiar in their daily life
- Use of real photo illustration
- Body awareness
- Nursery rhymes
- Colors, letters, numbers
Year Three
- Wordless books - build your own story (reader or child)
- Values and character
- Issues - fear, conflict, love, safety
- Colors, letters, numbers
- Nursery rhymes
Year Four
- More complex stories - hero, complication, resolution
- Diversity of others - faces, environment - OK to be different
- Jokes, play, humor, fun
- Nursery rhymes and poetry
Year Five
- Riddles and jokes
- School preparation and readiness
- Use rebus (pictures used for words)
- Science - non-fiction
- Folk tales
- Thank you, appreciation
- Rhymes and poetry
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