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Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library Continues Legacy Of Literacy

‘The seeds of these dreams are often found in books and the seeds you help plant in your community can grow across the world.’

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Dolly Parton passed away Tuesday at the age of 80, and beyond her significance as a cultural and country music icon, her flagship charity, Imagination Library, continues a legacy that championed literacy in Tennessee, the United States, and the world.

Parton started Imagination Library in 1995 in her home county of Sevier, Tennessee, as part of the Dollywood Foundation with the goal of mailing “free, high-quality books to children from birth to age five, no matter their family’s income” to children in Sevier.

“Before he passed away, my Daddy told me the Imagination Library was probably the most important thing I had ever done. I can’t tell you how much that meant to me because I created the Imagination Library as a tribute to my Daddy. 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,” Parton said of the program. “Inspiring kids to love to read became my mission. In the 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........

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