Over the past 14 years, Ann Johnston and her team of volunteers at Read to Me Stockton have provided thousands of books to children across the city of Stockton.
“It’s so important for children to have to be read to, to develop the language, the speech, the talking, all of the concepts that are critical so that when they get to kindergarten, they’re ready to learn to read,” Johnston explained. “Children love to be read to and so our challenge, obviously, is to get the books into the hands of the children and to encourage the parents to read those books to those little babes.”
The nonprofit wouldn’t have been able to do this without grants, donations, and Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library…