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'The best role parents can play in helping children take the first steps into literacy is to raise a “free range” reader, according to the nation’s top children’s literacy advocate.Incumbent Australian Children’s laureate Jackie French, the author of 170 books, said while she believed children were reading more, 40 per cent still did not meet international literacy benchmarks...'