Families Are Reading More Together.

Once a year we ask every Imagination Library family how the books are improving literacy at home.

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parents & caretakers in our program responded
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of children old enough to talk are learning new words from the books
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now read with their child more often than before the books arrived
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say their child likes the books

222 of 223 Families Would Recommend the Books

One spine per family

Nine in Ten Families Now Read Together More Often

What Parents Say

Our Community

A book at every age
Age groups surveyed from collected responses
The families who answered look like the families we serve
Each zip code's share of the 223 answers, next to its share of enrollment in October 2025
Share of survey answers Share of enrollment
Parents are our best recruiters
Families could name more than one source; written answers were sorted into the nearest group by hand.

One Small Improvement

Many families wrote that they didn't know the reading tips online or inside the front cover existed. Next year we'll make sure they do.

Send One More Child a Year of New Words

For $31, one more child gets a year of books in the mailbox — and one more family gets asked, next October, what changed at home.

Give a Year of Books — $31
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