{"id":100772,"date":"2025-08-27T23:20:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T23:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/100772\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T23:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T23:20:10","slug":"changing-australia-ailsa-wild-and-making-books-with-kids-to-boost-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/100772\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing Australia: Ailsa Wild and making books with kids to boost reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bath, book and bedtime regime for kids is well established in many Australian households.<\/p>\n<p>But not every kid is motivated to read, or can really connect with a book, particularly if they don&#8217;t find characters they can identify with.<\/p>\n<p>Ailsa Wild is a children&#8217;s author and for the last 15 years has been helping kids develop and publish their own books, so they can better see themselves represented in what they&#8217;re reading.<\/p>\n<p>Guest: Ailsa Wild, author, writer in residence Kids&#8217; Own Publishing\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The bath, book and bedtime regime for kids is well established in many Australian households. But not every&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[73315,64,63,457,73316,54844,19212,134,15995,73314,1366,60705,7994,29717],"class_list":["post-100772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-ailsa-wild","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-books","tag-changing-australia","tag-childrens-books","tag-diversity","tag-entertainment","tag-inclusion","tag-kids-own-publishing","tag-language","tag-literacy","tag-reading","tag-sally-sara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}