A cornerstone of Dolly Parton's legacy has been her literacy outreach. For a quarter century, her Dolly Parton's Imagination Library program has distributed free books to children around the world, from birth to age 5. The pop culture icon told the PBS NewsHour's Judy Woodruff that the initiative was inspired by her own father, who couldn't read and write. She said she saw how illiteracy affected him emotionally, and "I wanted to do something to help him," she said. With the creation of the prog

Join us in celebrating a monumental milestone for Dolly Parton's Imagination Library: over 200 million books gifted worldwide! 🎉 Thanks to the dedication of 2,800 local affiliates around the globe, we've inspired a love of reading in children everywhere. To celebrate this global milestone, we're hiding 7 enchanting Dolly bookmarks in Imagination Library books during September's International Literacy Month. 📚✨ Discovering a Dolly bookmark could make your child one of the 7 random recipients of

6M views · 124K reactions | Dolly Parton recorded a song to help get you through these trying times. For more of Dolly and her music, watch Dumplin', Heartstrings and the upcoming original musical, Christmas on the Square, this December. | Netflix | Facebook

19M views · 107K reactions | Dolly Parton describes the moment she heard Whitney Houston's version of 'I Will Always Love You'. | The Graham Norton Show | Facebook