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Dolly Parton is best known for being the Queen of Country, but she’s really a multi-hyphenate talent. The singer-songwriter-producer-actress-businesswoman-humanitarian is also an author, and she’s taking her literary talents over to Youtube for a weekly video series where she’ll read children’s stories to her audience.

Goodnight With Dolly is set to premiere Thursday (April 2) at 7/6c on Parton’s Imagination Library Youtube channel and will air 10 weekly episodes in total, according to Rolling Stone. The series “will focus on comforting and reassuring children during the shelter-in-place mandates,” The Imagination Library stated in today’s press release. “Dolly hopes these videos will provide a welcomed distraction during a time of unrest and also inspire a love of reading and books in the hearts of the children who see them.”

“This is something I have been wanting to do for quite a while, but the timing never felt quite right,” Parton said in the press release. “I think it is pretty clear that now is the time to share a story and to share some love. It is an honor for me to share the incredible talent of these authors and illustrators. They make us smile, they make us laugh and they make us think.”

Parton is including “The Little Engine That Could” as a story in her series as a celebration of the book’s 90th anniversary and a nod to the new members of her Imagination Library, who receive the book as a welcome for when they first sign up. Other books on the list include “There’s a Hole in the Log on the Bottom of the Lake” by Loren Long, “Llama Llama Red Pajama” by Anna Dewdney, “Pass It On” by Sophy Henn, “Stand Tall Molly Lou Mellon” by Patty Lovell, “Violet the Pilot” by Steve Breen, “Max & The Tag-Along Moon” by Floyd Cooper, “Last Stop on Market Street” by Matt de la Peña and of course, Parton’s own books: “I Am a Rainbow” and “Coat of Many Colors.”

You can watch Goodnight With Dolly on Imagination Library every Thursday night at 7/6c starting April 2 after you wrap up working 9 to 5 (from home).