Free books.

If you have a child from newborn to 5 years old, you are potentially eligible to receive free books.

How?

There is this neat little program called Dolly Parton's Imagination Library. It's a program sponsored by your local school district or a local businesses in which your registered child receives a free book every month until they are 5 years old.

Yes, a free book every month until they are 5. You can't beat that! Some of the books are amazing, and some are a little less awesome. It doesn't matter though because you can just take those less awesome books and donate them to charity.

How do you enroll? There are a few ways to do this. First check out the website here and click on your country. Then I usually just click on 1st time visitors. From there you can check and see if the program is available in your area. (You can also click on the "About Us" train car, then click on affiliates and see a list of participating cities/communities.)

If it is, you can go into your local school district office, ask to enroll in the Dolly Parton book club (they'll know what you're talking about) and fill out their little form.

It also appears you can do it from the Imagination Library website. This option wasn't available when I enrolled S, so I don't know how well it works.

If the program is not available in your area, you can try to get it in your community. The first place to start is with your school district. They may not even be aware of the program. After that I'm not sure exactly what needs to be done. I've looked into it a little on the IL website, but I think it will take work from the parents. Get some other interested moms on your side and see what you can do.