{"id":282182,"date":"2026-09-09T12:16:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T12:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/282182\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T12:16:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T12:16:17","slug":"joanna-prior-calls-for-national-decade-of-reading-at-pas-parliamentary-reception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/282182\/","title":{"rendered":"Joanna Prior calls for \u2018National Decade of Reading\u2019 at PA\u2019s parliamentary reception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/PA-parliamentary-reception-2026-Baroness-Rebuck-Axel-Scheffl.jpg\" alt=\"PA parliamentary reception 2026: (l-r) Baroness Rebuck, Axel Scheffler, Julia Donaldson, Joanna Prior and Dan Conway\" title=\"PA parliamentary reception 2026: (l-r) Baroness Rebuck, Axel Scheffler, Julia Donaldson, Joanna Prior and Dan Conway\" class=\"aos-Image aos-W100\"\/><\/p>\n<p>PA parliamentary reception 2026: (l-r) Baroness Rebuck, Axel Scheffler, Julia Donaldson, Joanna Prior and Dan Conway<\/p>\n<p>Joanna Prior, CEO of Pan Macmillan and chair of the National Literacy Trust, called for \u201cpublishers, partners, charities and political support\u201d for a \u201cNational Decade of Reading\u201d at the Publishers Association\u2019s (PA) annual reception yesterday (8th September 2026).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read this article for\u00a0<a style=\"color: #e67e23;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebookseller.com\/registration?utm_source=thebookseller&amp;utm_medium=paywall&amp;utm_campaign=anon+user+paywall\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">free<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Join thousands of book industry professionals who rely on The Bookseller for trusted publishing news, previews, and insight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\ud83d\udd13 Sign in below or <a style=\"color: #e67e23;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebookseller.com\/registration?utm_source=thebookseller&amp;utm_medium=paywall&amp;utm_campaign=anon+user+paywall\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">create a free account<\/a> to read 3 free articles.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PA parliamentary reception 2026: (l-r) Baroness Rebuck, Axel Scheffler, Julia Donaldson, Joanna Prior and Dan Conway Joanna Prior,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-282182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}