BEGIN WITH BOOKS

07/07/2025

GRAB YOUR BOOK, make a LAP. Your Imagination Library selections are on their way to almost 6,000 mailboxes around Charleston County!

06/14/2025

One of our favorites! Grab this book and curl up with your favorite little learner.

Unlock the power of empathy and learn the importance of listening with this heartwarming book by Cori Doerrfeld, a beautiful story to read-aloud with your little one on .

06/05/2025

GIVE YOUR BABY a reading boost this summer. The June Imagination Library selections are on their way to mailboxes around the world!

06/03/2025

THANK YOU, Janet, for the hundreds and hundreds of babies you've enrolled in BWB/Dolly Parton's Imagination Library and for all the parents you've inspired to read aloud to their newborns and toddlers. Thank you for your 6,000 hours of volunteer service at our valued partner, MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children's Hospital MUSC Children’s Health

🎉 6,000 volunteer hours and counting!

For more than 25 years, Janet has been a steady, comforting presence at MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital. From cuddling babies in the NICU to sharing stories through our Begin with Books program, she’s given her time, heart and care to thousands.

Janet recently hit an incredible milestone: 6,000 hours of volunteer service.

We’re so grateful for her ongoing dedication to our patients, families and care teams. Thank you, Janet! 💙

MUSC Volunteer Services

06/02/2025

TELL YOUR FRIENDS: Dolly Parton's Imagination Library is the best: Free books by mail from birth through age 4. Top quality children's literature. Parent reading tips. All siblings under 5 may be enrolled. Enroll at BeginWithBooks.org.

05/30/2025

WHETHER YOU SING THEM or say them, the familiar nursery rhymes in this book will delight your new baby. Add gestures and listen to the crows of delight from your infant. Even a newborn benefits from the rhythms and tones as you read and sing this May 2025 Imagination Library selection.

05/29/2025

THIS BOOK WILL PROVIDE hours and hours of entertainment and education. Besides the obvious naming exercises -- in two languages! -- your toddler will love pointing out details, laughing at antics, and asking (or answering) "what's happening?" questions. This May 2025 selection is for children turning 1, but will keep your child's interest for much longer.

05/28/2025

WE ARE GRATEFUL to Grace Church Cathedral Tea Room and Mouse Boutique, which give back so generously to our community every year. Thanks to everyone who contributes and participates to make this beloved event so meaningful. We appreciate your generous grant, which supports our work in early literacy! Grace Church Cathedral in the city of Charleston, SC

05/27/2025

CREATIVITY SAVES THE DAY in this joyful story inspired by the Korean Children's Day celebration. Danbi's Favorite Day is an Imagination Library selection for May 2025, for children turning 4.

05/27/2025

EVERYONE LOVES THE HUNGRY CATERPILLAR, including this youngster at Crescent Child Development Center in North Charleston, where we recently dropped off gift book bundles. Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eats Breakfast is a great book for learning to count and learning to name and learning to notice. And it's extra fun to peek and poke through the holes! Charleston County First Steps

05/23/2025

THERE'S LOTS OF NEXT-PAGE anticipation in this rollicking tale, a new Imagination Library selection for May 2025. Your 4-year-old will laugh and cock-a-doodle-doo and may learn a sweet lesson about responsibility and cooperation.

05/22/2025

THANKS TO NCAAP CHARLESTON CHAPTER for hosting the recent health fair at Burke High School. Palmetto Project and BEGIN WITH BOOKS shared a table to provide information on InsureSC and Dolly Parton's Imagination Library. We always love to remind people of the extremely important connection between literacy and good health. There's no better time to create a good literacy foundation than in the years from birth through age 4. Charleston County School District