Lenzy Krehbiel-Burton

Tulsa World Reporter

Mike Simons

Tulsa World Photojournalist

“The Little Engine That Could” will soon be showing up on some Tulsa-area bookshelves in both Spanish and English.

Starting this summer, Oklahoma families who participate in the Dolly Parton Imagination Library will be able to choose between books solely in English and books that are in both English and Spanish.

The Dolly Parton Imagination Library mails a free book each month to participating children until they turn 5 years old. Started in 1995 with a single county in Tennessee, it has given away more than 277 million books to date to children in the United States, Canada, Australia, Ireland and the United Kingdom through partnerships with local affiliates.

“It’s very exciting,” said Rebecca Harriso

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