Rosie Waterland
speaker
14,460 appearances
17 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 3 Sep
Rosie Waterland’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 17 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 8.
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Before he passed away, my daddy told me the imagination library was probably the most important thing I had ever done.
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I can't tell you how much that meant to me because I created the imagination library as a tribute to my daddy.
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He was the smartest man I have ever known, but I know in my heart his inability to read probably kept him from fulfilling all of his dreams.
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Like,
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She further went on to say, inspiring kids to love to read became my mission.
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beginning, my hope was simply to inspire the children in my home county, but here we are today with a worldwide program that gives a book a month to well over 3 million children.
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As of 2026, the Imagination Library has given away over 330 million books.
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Amazing.
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It sends a book to a child every 0.78 seconds.
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Yeah.
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She also said, and I think this is really lovely, when asked just in an interview about like why she thinks kids
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Kids love this program.
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She says, I think it's the fact they get recognised.
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They get this little book with their little name on it in the
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and they feel special.
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They start taking pride in themselves and they know that somebody out there is thinking of them.
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Wouldn't it feel so special to get a book addressed to you every month?
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As a little kid, particularly if you come from like a lower socioeconomic neighbourhood.
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Like that would, oh, that's so sweet.
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