Supported by: Murdo Fraser*, Miles Briggs*, Oliver Mundell*, Alexander Burnett*, Douglas Ross*, Donald Cameron*, Liam Kerr*, Peter Chapman*, Jackie Baillie*, John Lamont*, Liz Smith* *S5M-00197 Lewis Macdonald: Imagination Library Comes to Aberdeen That the Parliament — welcomes the announcement of a joint project between Aberdeen City Council and Dolly Parton s ’ Imagination Library that will see looked-after children in the city provided with a free book every month until their fifth birthday; understands that, since it was set up in 1995, the imagination library has provided over 70 million books to children worldwide, including 1.3 million in the UK; notes that the books are chosen by experts in early childhood literacy and reading and are provided free of charge to children who are in foster homes with prospective adopters or who are looked-after in local authority care; welcomes the involvement of the council in this global project, and thanks the Dolly Parton's Imagination Library for its commitment to support literacy in young children around the world.