The singer, who died last Tuesday at 80, included the touching note in the final book sent to five-year-olds as they got ready to start school.
Dolly Parton‘s legacy lives on and on. In addition to her enviable six-decade catalog of country and pop hits, the country icon is being remembered for her historic charitable giving through the Imagination Library.
The nonprofit has distributed more than 330 million free books to children age birth to five around the world over the past 30 years, mailing a new, age-appropriate book each month to children in the U.
S., U. K., Ireland, Australia and Canada, regardless of income.