Reader’s Digest Australia & New Zealand – January 2019

Explore, Interact, Inspire Available now, everywhere Beneath a BuTrappedrning “If IICoulld GotoSchhool AAgain” READS BEHIND THE ...

Trapp e d Beneath a Burning Tanker PAGE 128 CLASSIC READS From Street Kids to Chess Champions PAGE 114 “If I Could Go to School ...

Introducing RD TALKS TO LISTEN GO TO Sitbackandenjoy the audio versions of themostengaging storiestohave appeared in Reader’s Di ...

January• 2019 | 1 March 1933 14 THREE DAYS TO SEE The gift of sight opens up a vivid world of imagination for the famed writer. ...

Contents 2 | January• 2019 JANUARY 2019 REGULARS 4 Editor’s Letter 6 Staff Picks 8 Testimonial 27, 73, 81 Points to Ponder 45, 9 ...

Editor’s Note LOUISE WATERSON Group Editor ‘WHAT MAKES A READER’S DIGEST ARTICLE DIFFERENT?’ For me, the best Digest articles ha ...

Vol. 196 No. 1164 January 2019 ADVERTISING Group Advertising & Retail Sales Director Sheron White Account Manager Darlene De ...

Letters to the editor, caption competitions and other reader submissions ONLINE Follow the “Contribute” link at the RD website i ...

6 | January• 2019 I love ‘From Street Kids to Royal Knights’ because it is about believing in yourself. It shows how self-confid ...

January• 2019 | 7 ‘The Bear That Came to Supper’ intrigued me. Weighing in at 225 kilograms, Canadian black bear ‘Bosco’ was no ...

Testi mon ia ls SMALL MAGAZINE, WIDE REACH Escape From Prison APRIL 1937 Alittlemagazine provides an outlet for prisoners in Ohi ...

January• 2019 | 9 IT IS NIGHT AND I CAN’T SLEEP. Asliveroflightfromoutsidemycell throws hideous patterns on the walls. Faintnois ...

10 | January• 2019 Laughter THE BEST MEDICINE 1940s The nurse beckoned to one of a group of expectant fathers at the hospital an ...

January• 2019 | 11 place, I’d have taken the smaller fish.” “Well,” replied Sandy with his mouthfull,“you’vegotit!” THE OUTSPAN, ...

12 | January• 2019 A12-year-oldboydefines‘mixed emotions’: “It’s like hearing in the morning that school is closed becauseofasto ...

January• 2019 | 13 “There’sanewstudythatreveals thatwhitewinemayreducethe riskofheartattacks,”saysJayLeno. “Whattheydon’ttellyou ...

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January• 2019 | 15 MARCH 1933 What would you look at if youhadjustthreedaysofsight? Helen Keller, blind and deaf from infancy, g ...

16 | January• 2019 THREE DAYS TO SEE I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and dea ...

January• 2019 | 17 READER’S DIGEST too,onthefaceofababy,sothatI could catch a vision of the eager, inno- cent beauty which prece ...