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Natasha Kruger is the winner of the 2010 SA Reading Race, held earlier this year in Johannesburg. The young lady managed to work her way through 158 books in 10 months, learning English along the way. The Reading Race, now in its 15th year is designed to draw children to libraries and to foster a reading culture.

Read this special report from the London Book Fair’s Lucy Holland-Smith:

This year’s winner of the Johannesburg “Reading Race” managed to get through 158 books in
just ten months, it has been revealed

The annual event, which takes place at the Rhodes Park Library in the eastern part of the South African city and is now in its 15th year, is designed to encourage children to read more, according to Johannesburg’s official website.

While the eventual winner notched up an impressive 158 books, a total of 16 children were acknowledged for their efforts.

Edith Khuzwayo, a librarian at the Rhodes Park facility, said that while the library undoubtedly benefitted from the publicity brought by the race, the primary aim of the event was indisputably to highlight the joys of reading.

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