{"id":114362,"date":"2025-09-03T00:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T00:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/114362\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T00:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T00:08:11","slug":"reese-witherspoons-new-mission-how-she-plans-to-inspire-young-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/114362\/","title":{"rendered":"Reese Witherspoon’s new mission: How she plans to inspire young readers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Your support helps us to tell the story<\/p>\n

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.<\/p>\n

At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.<\/p>\n

The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political spectrum. And unlike many other quality news outlets, we choose not to lock Americans out of our reporting and analysis with paywalls. We believe quality journalism should be available to everyone, paid for by those who can afford it.<\/p>\n

Your support makes all the difference.Read more<\/p>\n

Oscar-winning actor and book club impresario Reese Witherspoon<\/a> is teaming up with her publisher, Hachette Book Group, on a literacy campaign. <\/p>\n

Starting this fall, new audio books from Nathan Harris, Patricia Cornwell and other Hachette fiction authors will include a message from Witherspoon urging parents to read to their children at least 10 minutes a day, visit libraries and bookstores and perhaps even form a book club. Witherspoon’s own club has helped boost sales for such choices as R.F. Kuang’s \u201cYellowface,\u201d Ann Patchett’s \u201cTom Lake\u201d and Emily Henry’s \u201c Great Big Beautiful Life.\u201d<\/p>\n

The initiative with Witherspoon is part of Hachette’s \u201cRaising Readers\u201d campaign.<\/p>\n

\u201cThrough community and collaboration, we hope to ignite children\u2019s imaginations and remind them of the endless joy and possibility that reading for fun can bring,\u201d Witherspoon said in a statement released Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Witherspoon’s message also will be included in a novel she has out in October, \u201cGone Before Goodbye,\u201d a thriller she wrote with Harlen Coben. <\/p>\n

Hachette CEO David Shelley said in a statement that \u201cWe\u2019re up against a lot of competition for young readers\u2019 attention. Having a megastar like Reese to help fly the flag for books is a tremendous asset.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[64,63,457,134],"class_list":["post-114362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-books","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}