{"id":14213,"date":"2021-09-01T08:25:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T22:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/?p=14213"},"modified":"2021-08-30T16:21:47","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T06:21:47","slug":"im-an-australian-reads-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/im-an-australian-reads-ambassador\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m an Australian Reads Ambassador!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

According to the Australian Publishers Association<\/a>, reading changes lives! Reading affects personal and social development, happiness, behaviour, relationships, education, employment, financial well-being, health, and community and cultural participation. Improvements in literacy, at any point in life, can have a profound effect on an individual; and yet research reveals that the number of children and adults engaged in reading for pleasure has dropped over the last decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So… I’m now an official Australian Reads<\/a> Ambassador.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Australian Reads<\/a> is a unique Australian book industry collaboration between authors, booksellers, libraries and publishers, born of a common passion for, and mutual interest in, championing reading. The collaboration promotes the many mental health and lifestyle benefits of reading books, with the aim of encouraging avid book readers to significantly increase book reading by all Australians \u2013 no matter the format they read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Did you know that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n