Books for Boys: A New Look at How to Bring Boys Into the World of Readers

1. Books for Boys:A New Look at How to Bring Boys Into the World of Readers Pam AllynExecutive Director, LitLife & LitWorld

2. Ritual Environment Access Dialogue The 4 Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Readers

3. Ritual • Create routines around reading, every day • Forge reading and writing to inspire and motivate • Read aloud • Create odd times such as seven minutes or nineteen minutes for reading • independently

4. Protect Time

5. Environment • Be open to environments unique to individual readers • Create a comfortable space for reading – no matter what that means • Get rid of distractions before they become distracting • Pay attention to changing preferences

8. Stand Up and Read?

9. Access • Provide genre balance • 40% nonfiction, 20% poetry, 40% fiction • Provide multiple texts at independent reading levels • Provide opportunity for multi-media conversation and connections • It’s a user generated world

12. Dialogue • Engage in conversations around what your boys are reading • This is part of forming a reading identity and connecting with others through shared text • Celebrate uniqueness, celebrate accomplishments • Encourage the boys to be curators of their own reading experiences

13. Great Books for Boys Themes and Styles Boys Love to Read

14. Action and Adventure Archie and the Pirates by Marc Rosenthal Steel Trapp series by Ridley Pearson

15. Art and Music Ish by Peter H. Reynolds Inkblot by Margaret Peot

16. Biographies and Memoirs The Boy Who Invented TV by Kathleen Krull We Are the Ship by Kadir Nelson

17. Comic Books and Graphic Novels Little Lit: Strange Stories for Strange Kids by Art Spiegelman & Francoise Mouly American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang

18. Expeditions Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson The Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer

19. Fantasy and Imagination The Odious Ogre by Norton Juster The Eyeball Collector by F.E. Higgins

20. Folktales, Myths & Tall Tales The Lion and the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney The Adventures of Ulysses by Bernard Evslin

21. History and Historical Fiction Here Comes the Garbage Barge by Jonah Winter You Wouldn’t Want to Be… series

22. How-To 101 Amazing Card Tricks by Bob Longe Show Off by Sarah Hines Stephens

23. Humor The Boss Baby by Marla Frazee Wayside School series by Louis Sachar

24. Math and Numbers Sir Cumference series by Cindy Neuschwander The Number Devil by Hans Magnus Enzensberger

25. Mechanics and Technology Honda: The Boy Who Dreamed of Cars by Mark Weston Future Tech by Charles Piddock

26. Mystery and Horror The 39 Clues series by Rick Riordan Zeke Armstrong Mystery series by Daniel J. Hale

27. Nature and the Animal World Actual Size by Steve Jenkins Extraordinary Jobs with Animals by Alecia Devantier

28. Poetry Guyku: A Year of Haiku for Boys by Bob Raczka Dark Emperor & Other Poems of the Night by Joyce Sidman

29. Realistic Fiction Mudshark by Gary Paulsen The Schwa Was Here by Neal Shusterman

30. Science and Space Oscar and the Bird by Geoff Waring How to Make a Universe… by Adrian Dingle

31. Sports Bats at the Ballgame by Brian Lies Last Shot by Josh Feinstein

32. Magazines and Websites Boy’s Life Guysread.com Boy’s Life Guysread.com

33. The LitLoop Reading Listening Writing Speaking

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