Reese Witherspoon loves a good book.
I mean, she runs her very own book club, Reese’s Book Club. Not to mention her production work in turning many well-loved books into popular TV shows and movies: Big Little Lies, Little Fires Everywhere, Where the Crawdads Sing, to name a few.
Witherspoon is about to turn her hand to another type of storytelling. The Oscar-winning actor is set to take the BBC’s CBeebies Bedtime Stories seat to read Extraordinary, written by Penny Harrison on Jan. 28.
The book, which is illustrated by Katie Wilson, encourages readers to discover the beauty in everyday life.
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“Sometimes, when we’re busy, it can be hard to find time to notice the world around us,” Witherspoon begins in her reading. “The things we see every day can seem a bit…ordinary. But if you stop, and look closer, you’ll see that our world is extraordinary.”
Witherspoon joins a long line of celebrities to read a CBeebies Bedtime Stories. Dolly Parton, Regé-Jean Page, Ryan Reynolds, Tom Hardy, Chris Evans, Orlando Bloom, David Schwimmer, and Alesha Dixon have tucked up with a good book in front of the nation.
Reese Witherspoon’s CBeebies Bedtime Story will air at 6.50 p.m. GMT, Friday Jan. 28 on the CBeebies channel and will also be available on BBC iPlayer.