NEW YORK – Oscar-winning actor and book club impresario Reese Witherspoon is teaming up with her publisher, Hachette Book Group, on a literacy campaign.

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 “Yellowface,” Ann Patchett's “Tom Lake” and Emily Henry's “ Great Big Beautiful Life.”

The initiative with Witherspoon is part of Hachette's “Raising Readers” campaign.

“Through community and collaboration, we hope to ignite children’s imaginations and remind them of the

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