Celebrate World Music Day 2024!

Dolly Parton began singing professionally at age 10, and has gone on to write and perform almost 3,000 songs. Inspired by her father’s inability to read and write, Dolly founded the Imagination Library to give books to children ages 0-5 years. Since 1995, the Imagination Library has gifted more than 200,000,000 books to children!

In honor of World Music Day 2024, learn more about musicians like Dolly Parton by checking out these great books:

Ordinary Days: The Seeds, Sound, and City That Grew Prince Rogers Nelson by Angela Joy

Mary's Idea by Chris Raschka

The Bee Gees (Little Golden Book Biographies) by Kari Allen

The Fastest Drummer: Clap Your Hands for Viola Smith! by Dean Robbins

The Girl Who Heard the Music: How One Pianist and 85,000 Bottles and Cans Brought New Hope to an Island by Marni Fogelson

Iconic Composers: A Celebration of Music's Extraordinary Composers (Icons) by David Lee Csicsko

Beautiful Noise: The Music of John Cage by Lisa Rogers

Mozart (Little People, Big Dreams) by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara

Cantora: Mercedes Sosa, the Voice of Latin America by Melisa Fernández Nitsche

Rock, Rosetta, Rock! Roll, Rosetta, Roll!: Presenting Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Godmother of Rock & Roll by Tonya Bolden

96 Facts about Taylor Swift: Quizzes, Quotes, Questions, and More! (96 Facts about...) by Arie Kaplan

Ella Fitzgerald (She Persisted) by Andrea Davis Pinkney

Rebel Girls Rock: 25 Tales of Women in Music (Rebel Girls Minis) by Rebel Girls

Who Is Harry Styles? (Who Was?) by Kirsten Anderson

The Beatles Couldn't Read Music? (Wait! What?) by Dan Gutman