We love books that appeal to boys.
Transforming boys into lifelong readers and lovers of books is our mission.
Below is a passage from Panther In the Basement . Amos Oz, the author, is an Israeli novelist. This passage completely captures a book lover's senses. Digital media will never entice and delight our natural senses.
"To this day you can take me to a room with my eyes closed and my ears plugged, and I can tell at once, without the slightest doubt, if it is a room full of books. I take in the smells of an old library not with my nostrils but through my skin, a kind of grave, pensive laden with book dust finer than any other dust, blended with the savor that emanates from old paper, mingled with the smell of glues ancient and modern, pungent thick almond scents, sourish sweat, intoxicating weed and iodine, and undertones of the lead smell of thick printer's ink, and a smell of rotting paper, eaten away by damp and mildew, and of cheap paper that is crumbling to dust, contrasting with the rich, exotic, dizzying aromas emanating from fine imported paper that excite the palate."-- Amos Oz
Read early, read often.
To learn what the Experts know about the benefits of reading to infants and small children, click here .
http://www.getcaughtreading.org/readingtochildren.htm
Middle Grade authors
· CS Lewis
In the past few years new and encouraging genres have emerged to stimulate some interest with reluctant readers. These are Comics, Anime, Manga, and Graphic Novels
Please send us recommendations to add to our best books for boys list: john@boysread.org
Visit Michael Sullivan's site for a superb suggestion list of books for boys: http://www.talestoldtall.com/BooksforBoys.html#Low
*summarized from boysread.org website 11/10/2007