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Register Your Child

Parents may register online at www.imaginationlibrary.com or through the mail. Registration forms may be printed below or are available at any Sullivan County Public Library.

Printable Registration Form

Change of Address

To continue receiving books if the child’s address changes, contact your local Imagination Library organization or call 1-877-99-BOOKS. The Post Office will not forward books if you move!

Volunteer Information

The Sullivan County Imagination Library is an all- volunteer organization with many opportunities for those who would be interested in donating their time and talents. Sign up now to join our team.

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Books themes and focus

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