Under the program, children receive a free book once a month until the age of 5 — almost like it’s coming directly from a fairy godmother named Dolly Parton. The country singer started the Imagination Library in 1995 to inspire “a love of reading,” according to the website.

Jointly funded by the state and local organizations, the initiative — one of Parton’s many community outreach efforts — has mailed monthly books to more than 15,000 children in Indiana’s St. Joseph, Elkhart,