A few days ago I attended “Guys Read: How to Get and Keep Boys Reading,” a wonderful event hosted at “An Unlikely Story,” Jeff Kinney’s gorgeous bookstore in Plainville, Massachusetts.
The evening was a chance to hear from a great line-up of authors beloved by most boys. Read more…Funny guys, great advice
My boys refused to read Harry Potter.
But here’s how we broke the Potter-Boycotter spell. Read more…The boys who wouldn’t read Harry Potter
As summer sets in and reading lists proliferate, sometimes kids can get overwhelmed and their enthusiasm can flag.
Why not participate in 1 or 2 of the many reading incentives offered around this time by cities, book publishers, and local merchants? Recharge that bookish energy!
Here are two summer reading incentives in which my boys are participating: Read more…Reading incentives this summer
In the past decade and a half there has been an explosion of interest in Greek mythology among children, due in great part (in my opinion) to Rick Riordan’s block-buster Percy Jackson series for tweens.
For younger siblings who are not yet ready to tackle Percy Jackson, but are feeling left out of the Greek phenomena, here’s a fun and accessible primer series: Read more…Young gods
We’ve had a bunny bonanza in our garden this spring. Well, that makes it sound like a good thing, and they are really, very cute, especially the little ones. But now that young and old have indiscriminately chewed through many of the emerging shoots I had waited for all winter long, I’m pretty fed up with rabbits in general.
Raging over rabbits however got me thinking (seriously and on a more positive note!) about one of our all time favorite audiobook collections: The Rabbit Ears Listening Library series. Read more…Rabbits in my garden, rabbits in your car
BOOK BUSTERS!
AKA librarians, of course.
If your local librarian goes above and beyond to enrich lives, here’s your chance to do something in return. Read more…When summer looms, in the neighborhood, who you gonna call?
A few weeks ago, I was invited by author Kameel Nasr to talk about books for boys on his show “Local Authors” on Cambridge Community TV. My first live TV interview! In fact, my first TV interview, period. Read more…Bookish Boys on TV!
To read or not to read A Series of Unfortunate Events ?
I have mixed feelings…but there’s more than one great way to experience the books. Read more…Fortunate? Unfortunate?
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