Last week I posted a list of authors for girls with the promise to post one for boys. Some times, it is harder to cultivate a love for reading in boys. It CAN be done! Boys are more prone to want to get up and go instead of sitting still long enough to enjoy a good book. Reading aloud to your son can really help cultivate that love for reading he so desperately needs. Find out what he is interested in and then find a book on that subject or with that story line. If a mystery interests him then read a Sugar-Creek Gang by Paul Hutchens to him. If he likes dogs then read one of Jim Kjelgaard's animal adventure books with him. If it's horses he likes, definitely read The Black Stallion by Walter Farley. I recently read this entire series and couldn't put them down! If he likes to laugh and joke around then read him Ribsy or Henry Huggins by Beverly Cleary. If your little guy is interested in collecting all sorts of odds and ends then read the Eddie series by Carolyn Haywood! There is a book for any interest. These are just a few of the authors for boys. Listed below are a few more. Enticing your son to want to read will be successful if you can match him up with the right type of book.
Happy Reading!
Wilson Rawls Where the Red Fern Grows
Elizabeth George Speare The Sign of the Beaver and many more titles that are excellent
Franklin Dixon The Hardy Boys mystery series
Donald J. Sobol Encyclopedia Brown
Roald Dahl Charlie and The Chocolate Factory and James and The Giant Peach
Jean Craighead George My Side of the Mountain
Childhood of Famous Americans series (Biographies)
Fred Gipson Old Yeller
John Reynold Gardiner Stone Fox
Marguerite Henry Justin Morgan Had a Horse
Robert Lawson Ben and Me; Mr. Revere and I (excellent books!)
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