Dolly Parton Cried Reading a Letter From a Child Who Learned to Read Because of Her. She Keeps the Letter Still.
2026/07/08
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Dolly Parton Cried Reading a Letter From a Child Who Learned to Read Because of Her. She Keeps the Letter Still.
The Imagination Library receives letters. Not many, relative to the volume of books it sends — 200 million books generates a modest fraction of its impact in correspondence, because most of the children who receive the books are too young to write letters and most of their parents are busy with the ordinary business of being parents.
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This one arrived from a child who was nine years old at the time of writing. The child's mother had enclosed a note explaining the context: her daughter had been struggling with reading, had been assessed at a level significantly below where she should be for her age, and had been growing increasingly frustrated and increasingly resistant to books in the way that children who associate reading with failure tend to resist the thing that is making them feel bad about themselves.
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