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THEMES AND CONCEPTS
Prevalent themes and focus of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library: Inspiration & Imagination
Other fundamental themes of regard: love of reading and learning; regard for diversity of people, their roles, culture, and environment; promotion of self-esteem and confidence, appreciation of art and aesthetics
Each series of books should contain certain characteristics specific to its age appropriateness including:
Year One
Vision - bright, big, colorful
Touch - board pages
Rhyme and rhythm
Simple - easy to use
Minimal text - point and say
Playful sound
Nurture - attachment - lullaby themes
Year Two
Continue concepts from year one and build upon them
Repetition and predictability - generate language
Motor skills
“Self-help” activities - things children can do, things familiar in their daily life
Use of real photo illustration
Body awareness
Nursery rhymes
Colors, letters, numbers
Year Three
Wordless books - build your own story (reader and child)
Values and character
Issues - fear, conflict, love, safety
Colors, letters, numbers
Nursery rhymes
Year Four
More complex stories - hero, complication, resolution
Diversity of others - faces, environment - OK to be different
Play, humor, fun
Nursery rhymes and poetry
Year Five
School preparation and readiness
Use rebus (pictures used for words)
Science - non-fiction
Folk tales
Thank you, appreciation
Rhymes and poetry
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