She Quietly Gave 200 Million Books to Children — And Never Asked for Credit
2026/06/04
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In 1995, inspired by a conversation with her father — a man who never learned to read — Dolly Parton launched the Imagination Library. The concept was beautifully simple: every child enrolled in the program receives one free, age-appropriate book every single month, from birth until they start school.
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She started in her home county of Sevier County, Tennessee. Back then, it reached just a few hundred children. Nobody could have predicted what it would become.
A Father Who Couldn't Read Changed Everything
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