{"id":49,"date":"2026-10-25T13:50:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T13:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick-childrens\/choosing-books-by-age\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T13:50:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T13:50:45","slug":"choosing-books-by-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick-childrens\/choosing-books-by-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Choosing Books by Age (and When to Ignore the Label)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every book in the shop has an age band, because it helps you browse. But children are not age bands, and the best book is the one they will want to pick up again.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Read up, read down<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A confident six-year-old may love a chapter book read aloud, and a ten-year-old may still treasure a picture book. Both are reading.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Follow the interest<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dragons, buses, bees: a child who loves a subject will stretch for a book about it. <em>Busy Bees<\/em> has won over more than one reluctant reader.<\/p><p class=\"fo-demo-note wp-block-paragraph\"><em>A demo article for the Foliowick theme. The books mentioned are fictional.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Age bands are a starting point, not a rule. How we help families find the right next book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reading-guides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick-childrens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick-childrens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick-childrens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick-childrens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick-childrens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick-childrens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick-childrens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick-childrens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick-childrens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick-childrens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}