Who We Are
BEGIN WITH BOOKS is the affiliate of Dolly Parton's Imagination Library in
Berkeley, Charleston, and Dorchester Counties.
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library is a global book-gifting program that sends monthly books by mail to babies and toddlers.
Dolly Parton founded the Imagination Library in 1995 in honor of her father, who never learned to read, and to inspire a love of reading in children.
An all-volunteer organization, BEGIN WITH BOOKS is as an initiative of Palmetto Project, a South Carolina nonprofit that has served the Palmetto State since 1984.
BEGIN WITH BOOKS (BWB) began in Charleston County in 2010, and as we enter our 15th anniversary, BWB is expanding to include Berkeley and Dorchester Counties! In Charleston County alone, BWB ships over 6,000 books per month directly to the homes of enrolled babies and toddlers in
Adams Run
Awendaw
Charleston's Peninsula (zip codes 29401, 29403, and 29409)
Charleston West Ashley zip 29407
Edisto
Folly Beach
Hollywood-Meggett-Yonges Island
James Island
Johns Island
McClellanville
North Charleston (zip codes 29404, 29405, 29406, 29418, and 29420)
Ravenel
Wadmalaw Island
Studies show that children who participate in the Imagination Library:
Enter school ready to learn.
Do better in school.
Have a better chance to become productive members of the community.
WE ARE CHANGING LIVES IN THE TRI-COUNTY REGION!