You will always love your kids, but sometimes reading them a bedtime story after you’ve been working 9 to 5 can be a challenge. No worries: The Queen of Country wants to help.
Music legend Dolly Parton is launching a series of videos in which she’ll read kids bedtime stories, NPR reports. Called “Goodnight With Dolly,” the 10-week series premieres on Thursday at 7 pm EDT on YouTube.
The project is sponsored by Parton’s famous Imagination Library, a nonprofit group that provides free books for kids across the world.
On a blog post on the Imagination Library website, Parton says, “This is something I have been wanting to do for quite a while, but the timing never felt quite right. I think it is pretty clear that now is the time to share a story and to share some love.”
The first video will feature the Smoky Mountain Songbird reading Watty Piper’s 1930 classic The Little Engine That Could. Other books in the series will include Matt de la Peña’s Last Stop on Market Street, Anna Dewdney’s Llama Llama Red Pajama, and Parton’s own I Am a Rainbow and Coat of Many Colors.
“It is an honor for me to share the incredible talent of these authors and illustrators,” Parton writes on the Imagination Library website. “They make us smile, they make us laugh and they make us think.”
Michael Schaub is a Texas-based journalist and regular contributor to NPR.
