Imagination Library of Weld County

Loved by families, validated by research

Your gift provides funding for all children, from birth to age 5, in Weld County to receive free books! By providing books at NO COST to families, the Imagination Library increases childhood literacy rates, fosters a love of books, and promotes a culture of reading for all children. Due to this statewide Imagination Library program which matches every dollar raised for books, means that your gift is doubled.

We know that reading begins at birth, and the benefits of a home library go far beyond the simple act of reading. Research proves reading at home fosters a love of reading, kindergarten readiness, and social & emotional intelligence.

The Impact of Your Support

• 85% of parents say these books are their primary source of books in the home
• 95% of parents say their child is exposed to a wider variety of books
• 100% of parents say they are reading more often to their child
• ILCO participants were 16-24% less likely to score "well below benchmark" on DIBELS, reducing the need for costly remedial reading support.

What our Imagination Library Family says

"Imagination Library Books have impacted our son's life by helping me to engage him with reading-often at a level I would've thought was "too advanced" for him to understand. The reading guide with each book has helped me as a parent to think about hot to process ideas and themes with my son." 

"This is an amazing and incredibly generous program. Not only have these books helped my child's speech and literacy development, they have brought us all closer together as a family." 

"The books sent are such a wide variety of subjects. The quality of books is excellent and it is so exciting when we receive a book. My older daughter loves to read your books to her little sister:)"

About Imagination Library in Colorado

Imagination Library of Colorado (ILCO) is a book gifting program that mails one new, developmentally appropriate book every month to 90,000+ Colorado children from birth until they begin kindergarten. This program is offered at no cost to families thanks to our ILCO partnerships: half of the book cost is funded by a community nonprofit in Colorado's 64 counties, and the other half is provided by the State of Colorado and the Colorado Department of Early Childhood.