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New Hampshire Pushes for Statewide Imagination Library | Concord News
New Hampshire lawmakers are set to make Dolly Parton’s beloved Imagination Library a statewide program, thanks to a bipartisan bill backed by Senators Abbas, Fenton, and Prentiss. Since 1995, the initiative has mailed over 330 million free, age-appropriate books to kids ages birth to five — and now, with state funding through the Department of Education, it could reach every child in the Granite State. The estimated annual cost? $750,000 over five years. Communities like the North Country have already seen powerful impacts, with nearly 1,000 kids receiving books since 2022 — and support…
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