It’s a legacy that Parton built quietly in the background as she presided over pop culture for more than six decades.
«The biggest thing that I like is the fact that she didn’t do anything for recognition,» said Geoff Blacklin, 67, of Manitoba, Canada.
He and his wife signed up their grandchildren for Imagination Library after a local doctor brought the programme to their region.
«She gave families more than books,» Blacklin said. «She gave children a love of reading, precious moments with loved ones, and opportunities to learn and dream.»
Such family stories and gratitude would undoubtedly have been music to Parton’s ears; the expansion of the programme was truly a realisation of her own dream.
«In the beginning, my hope was simply to inspire the children in my home county, but here we are today with a worldwide programme that gives a book a month to well over 3 million children,» she wrote on the Imagination Library site – also taking care to thank the partners «who have embraced my dream and made it their own».
At the centre of it, always, was her love for children – and her love for her father.
«Before he passed away, my Daddy told me the Imagination Library was probably the most important thing I had ever done,» Parton wrote.
«I can’t tell you how much that meant to me, because I created the Imagination Library as a tribute to my Daddy.»
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