Loudoun Now
For more than two decades, the legendary singer/songwriter Dolly Parton put books in the hands of America’s youngest kids. Now, a group of book-loving Loudoun teachers and moms has launched the county’s first chapter of the Dolly Parton Imagination Library, which will send a free book every month to western Loudoun kids 5 and under.
The new Loudoun DPIL chapter, Roots Grow Wings, launched earlier this month in conjunction with Parton’s 75th birthday.
“It was sort of a pipe dream and then COVID hit. … It was like that was our call to urgency,” said Emerick Elementary School reading specialist Susan Lyons who spearheaded the local group. “We were seeing lots of kids who were at home. … Everybody’s got a COVID project this is our COVID project.”