Dolly Parton takes Imagination Library to UK

She is one of the world’s most famous country singers, with a fortune estimated at £110 million. Rotherham is the gritty South Yorkshire town where once the great steel and coal industries of England flourished. Yet, somehow, Dolly Parton and Rotherham have come together to embark on a laudable project to teach children to read. Parton, 61, has chosen the town as the first place this side of the Atlantic to promote her scheme to improve children’s literacy. She will launch her United Kingdom Imagination Library at the Magna science and education centre on a former steelworks’ site in Rotherham on Wednesday, December 5, 2007. Read about the new library in The Telegraph.