AGiftBoutique.com is pleased to support Dolly Parton's Imagination Library run by Kids Can Fly by donating a portion of the proceeds from orders during the holiday season.

"Imagination Library is an awesome program to enrich a child's life through reading. Not only does it benefit the child's development through early learning, it also has lifelong benefits in their overall health and well being." says AGiftBoutique.com Owner, Catherine Jacquemain.

The Imagination Library is a program that puts free age-appropriate quality children’s books into the child’s home via monthly mail delivery. Dolly Parton founded Imagination Library in 1996 with a goal of helping children secure strong reading and literacy skills as well as nurturing their creativity and imaginations.

Research confirms that 25% of young children are not ready when they start kindergarten and 27% do not graduate high school. This is a frightening correlation. Research also shows that for every dollar you invest in early learning, you save up to $17 in the future on health care, additional resources in school and on the judicial system. Some states even forecast prison spaces in the future on grade 3 reading scores. This proves how critical it is to have children ready to begin kindergarten. "I highly recommend watching the video on the home page of the Kids Can Fly website to see the dramatic impact a program such as Imagination Library can have on our children." says Jacquemain.

"The benefits extend to the person reading to the child as well. There is nothing more that I love then when my grandson grabs a book then shuffles in backwards to plop down on my lap to read him a book. I love not only the cuddling time (because this is usually the extent of his cuddling), but also to see how much he learns and develops each time we read a book together. It is truly inspiring to want to help other children have the same experience. One of their mottos says it all : "We believe that if you change the BEGINNING of the story, you change the WHOLE story."