Dolly Parton created the Imagination Library 13 years ago to provide books to children and encourage literacy. Now the hometown entertainer will have her own children’s book, “I Am a Rainbow,” featured in the philanthropy.

The 63-year-old Parton says working on projects like the book gives her a chance to play and live her childhood all over again. Parton describes the new book as one for all ages and says how colors can be used to explain emotions children might have.

She wrote the book with the plans of the proceeds to benefit the Imagination Library, which supplies books to 1,000 communities in the USA, the United Kingdom and Canada.