AEYC Celebrates 100,000 Books Given Through the Dolly Parton Imagination Library

A young Juneau family has received the 100,000th book from the Southeast Alaska Dolly Parton Imagination Library.

First Lady Sandy Parnell on Friday presented the “Little Engine that Could” to Alden Scott Talbot, his mother, Marlowe Dunker, and father, Tony Talbot.  Alden was born Oct. 10th and is already enrolled in the Imagination Library through the Association for the Education of Young Children – Southeast Alaska.

“I think  that nothing really says I love you quite the way that cuddling up together and reading a good book does,” Parnell told the crowd gathered at the Juneau Arts and Culture Center.

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