The American country music queen has revealed that the Book Town will be the Scottish base for the initiative to improve literacy amongst youngsters across the world and she and her team chose the Machars town for its position within the literary field.
'Dolly Parton's Imagination Library' was started six years ago in North America and has ensured over half a million free books have made their way to children in a bid to improve the country's literacy rates, and is now being targeted at children across the Atlantic.
The area around the Machars will now see every child under the age of five receiving an age-appropriate book every month and parents will have to register their child in order to be included.
The Book Town Festival organisers will part-fund and run the scheme and it is hoped Dolly herself can make an appearance to boost the venture's publicity.
The festival's Arts Administrator Catherine Campbell said: "We'll be the first in Scotland - the Wigtown Book Festival is sponsoring Imagination Library and acting as "local champion" who register children for the scheme and hold the launch event."
Catherine added that the executive director of the Dollywood Foundation, David Dotson, had visited Wigtown last week and the town made a big impression on him.
Mr Dotson said this week that there is every chance the star may be able to squeeze time from her schedule when she is in Glasgow performing this June to pop down to the Machars and meet the locals.
Catherine said: "We did discuss Dolly coming to Wigtown, but I'm afraid I can't say much more than that. We're delighted that Dolly has chosen the Wigtown Book Festival to launch the Imagination Library in Scotland. This is a really exciting addition to our year round programme of events."
Shocked Rotherham residents were given a chance to meet the platinum-blonde slight of a singer when she appeared in December to launch the scheme south of the border in England's first Imagination Library experience.
Dolly has been outspoken about her reasons behind founding such a scheme and wants to make sure every child has a chance at becoming a good reader.
She said: "Literacy was a real problem in Tennessee and I saw first-hand the lifelong struggle that resulted from many of my friends and neighbours and the effect it had on them. Ever since that time, my dream has been for every child to have a library of books that their parents can read to them from the moment they are born until they start school."
Catherine said that Wigtown's position in the book world means it was an obvious launching point.
She said: "Wigtown, as Scotland's National Book Town, is the ideal place to launch the programme in Scotland. It's really important to us as the National Book Town that children in Wigtown and the Machars are encouraged to read. Through the Imagination Library every child under five will receive a free book every month which they can read and enjoy with their parents."
This year's Book Festival runs from 26th September to 5 October and will host a range of high-profile guests, as has become the norm for the popular event.
For more information on registering your child for the Imagination Library please contact Catherine Campbell on 01988 402 036