Join Dolly Parton every Thursday night at 7:00PM on her FACEBOOK PAGE for her weekly video reading of a select Imagination Library book.
The country music icon hopes these bedtime stories will not only provide a welcome distraction amid the coronavirus crisis but will also inspire a love of reading and books in the hearts of children as well.
"This is something I have been wanting to do for quite a while, but the timing never felt quite right, " Parton said in a recent news release. "I think it's pretty clear that now is the time to share a story and some love. It is an honor for me to share the incredible talent of these authors and illustrators. They make us smile, they make us laugh, and they make us think".
The 10 week series will feature such favorites as The Little Engine That Could, There's a Hole in the Log on the Bottom of the Lake, Llama Llama Red Pajama,and I am a Rainbow, by Dolly Parton herself.
Dolly was the fourth of 12 children born in a one-room cabin in east Tennessee. They were so poor that her father, a tobacco sharecropper, paid the doctor who helped deliver her with a bag of cornmeal. In 2006, Parton gave $500,000 toward a hospital and cancer center to be constructed in her hometown in the name of Robert F. Thomas, the physician who delivered her.
Since the mid-1980s, Parton has supported many charitable efforts, particularly in the area of literacy. In 1995, Dolly Parton launched an exciting program to benefit the children of her home county in east Tennessee, Dolly Parton's Imagination Library. Dolly wanted to foster a love of reading among her county’s preschool children and their families by mailing each child one free, age-appropriate book per month from birth until they start school. The program has seen phenomenal growth and success expanding throughout 4 countries. In 2018, Parton was honored by the Library of Congress for sending out its 100 millionth book. Sign your child up HERE.
Dolly Parton is one of the most-honored female country performers of all time. Among her countless awards, she has received 46 Grammy Award nominations, is one of only six female artists to win the Country Music Association's highest honor, Entertainer of the Year (1978), induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame (1999) and in 2005, she was honored with the National Medal of Arts, the highest honor given by the U.S. government for excellence in the arts. But true to her humble roots, she says that a bronze sculpture on the courthouse lawn in her hometown of Sevierville is "the greatest honor", because it came from the people who knew her.
BTW, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Parton donated $1 million towards research at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee and encouraged those who can afford it to make similar donations.
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