{"id":110320,"date":"2025-09-03T00:31:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T00:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/110320\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T00:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T00:31:11","slug":"how-she-plans-to-inspire-young-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/110320\/","title":{"rendered":"How she plans to inspire young readers"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 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<\/a> \u201cYellowface,\u201d Ann Patchett’s<\/a> \u201cTom Lake\u201d and Emily Henry’s \u201c<\/a> Great Big Beautiful Life.\u201d<\/p>\n

The initiative with Witherspoon is part of Hachette’s \u201cRaising Readers\u201d<\/a> 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 Harlan 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

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This story corrects the spelling of Harlan Coben’s name.<\/p>\n

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