When Autumn Reed joined the Springtown Lions Club, she thought of the organization as something tied mostly to sports. Her perspective changed when she learned the club had taken on a program that resonated with her passion as a teacher: the Dolly Parton Imagination Library.
The reading program, supported by grants and fundraising efforts, mails one free book each month to children from birth until they reach age 5. The mission of the program is to help build home libraries and give parents books they can read with their children before they enter kindergarten.
“This is an awesome opportunity to promote early childhood literacy,” said Reed, who teaches at Goshen Creek Elementary School. “Parents are the very first teachers. Not the pre-K teacher, not the kindergarten teacher — parents.”
