{"id":49134,"date":"2025-10-01T13:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T13:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/49134\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T13:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T13:39:08","slug":"free-books-for-all-children-up-to-age-5-in-san-joaquin-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/49134\/","title":{"rendered":"Free books for all children up to age 5 in San Joaquin County!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early Literacy Alert! Every child in San Joaquin County from birth to age 5 can now receive a free book every month through Dolly Parton\u2019s Imagination Library!<\/p>\n<p>Previously, only families in Stockton and Lodi were eligible, but with additional support from United Way of San Joaquin County, the rest of the county is now eligible\u00a0too.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The partnership is between the United Way of San Joaquin County and Read to Me, Stockton!,\u00a0which first connected with the Imagination Library 14 years ago and has since brought nearly 1 million books to the county.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers, educators, and other supporters celebrated the expansion at a kickoff breakfast at the Great Wolf Lodge in Manteca, alongside San Joaquin County Superintendent of Schools Dr. Troy Brown, United Way President\/CEO Kristen Spracher-Birtwhistle, and Read to Me, Stockton! President Ann Johnston.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc49 Educators, caregivers, and anyone working with children: help spread the word! Sign up today at <a href=\"https:\/\/imaginationlibrary.com\/check-availability\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">imaginationlibrary.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/imaginationlibrary.com\/check-availability\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dolly Parton&#8217;s Imagination Library<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A book titled Green Tractor\/Tractor Verde is at the front of a propped up stack of books.\" data-image- data-resource-description=\"\" data-resource-filename=\"WebsiteNewsStories.jpg\" data-resource-uuid=\"8b953eb1-45f8-4676-94c6-cfb2b6dd8be4\" src=\"\" width=\"363\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Early Literacy Alert! Every child in San Joaquin County from birth to age 5 can now receive a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[412,146,85,46,38045,38046],"class_list":["post-49134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-newsroom-detail","tag-san-joaquin-county-office-of-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}