Building Home Libraries with Jamie Lima

Kanawha Valley Hustlers · Jul 2, 2025 · 4m

I talk with Jamie Lima, the state director for Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library of West Virginia. We meet at Meet-Up 64, and she shares the impact this program has on families across the state. The Imagination Library mails free books to children from birth to age five, helping them build a home library before they even start school. Jamie says the books are professionally selected, age-appropriate, and delivered every month. She says the goal is to improve school readiness, long-term academic outcomes, and even reduce substance use risks later in life.

Jamie tells me the program went…