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