Posted on 04/21/2014 8:01:40 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Boys are being put off reading because of the influence women have on children’s literature, says an award-winning children’s author.
Jonathan Emmett warned that children’s books were too girly because of the influence of mostly female panels of editors, publishers, reviewers and judges.
One publishing company’s research suggested women bought 95 percent of picture books for children, he added.
The writer believes boys are being starved of what they enjoy in books, such as swashbuckling pirates, battles, or technical details about spaceships, and so are driven to more action-packed video games instead. …
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The thing about violence in fairy tales is that kids know it’s just a story. They may also include questionable connotations, but ambiguously and lost on most adults, let alone kids. But I think you’re right that overprotecting a kid by limiting everything they’re allowed to see is keeping them in a bubble and not letting them mature. It’s the same as someone living in a real bubble: they never develop an immunity to germs when they’re never exposed to them.
My mom, bless her heart, thought Dr. Suess books were the best things ever, and she bought "Cat in the Hat" well after I had lost any interest in such drivel. But I'm sure glad she did, it turns out it was a true first edition with dust jacket that was worth thousands to a collector.
Yeah, I play some multi online with him. Kind of a father son thing for the 21st century lol. I setup a minecraft server so I can monitor things and keep the language kid friendly ;-)
Boys are never going to want to read about getting in touch with their emotions, and sharing their feelings, intimacy,and being eager for commitment.
I may be showing my age here but does anyone remember “The Hardy Boy” series of books which was a popular series in the 50s and 60s and aimed at young boys. Man, I loved those and read every single one.
Anything by Hemingway
Isaac Asimov
Hardy Boys
The Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia Brown
I have all the Tarzan, Venus and Martian series, Edgar Rice Burroughs books, Man from Uncle, Richard Blade series Jeffery Lord, time travel, fights, the whole boy works not for under Teens, series. Plus my romantic historical ones, for a girl I had a wide reading range. Dr Kildare, Superman, Iron-man, Avengers, X Men, were myn comic book reading. Dragon Riders of Pern, Anne McCaffery, Clan of the Cave Bear, MM Auell, I’ve read Anne’s other series too, Both these female writers tell very detailed stories boys would love.
I was not Nancy Drew fan to say the least. I liked reading about Pasteur, Madame Curie, Florence Nightingale, etc as a teen.
The books assigned by women teachers are mainly to blame. They are usually all about feelings. How incredibly boring is that.
That’s just boys excuse mongering.
We had Germans and Japs, my son had cars, trucks, and tools, the kid has Zombies, a guy thing.
Disney has the same “boy” problem.
Too much princess not enough prince.
The suit in charge of the Magic kingdom revamp even adjusted the revamp to give consideration for boys. (he and his wife have two sons and he saw nothing in the revamp for them)
Even star trek books jumped the shark with female authors who wrote pablem that always centered around a surrogate for the author who was the heroine of the story.
Look at network tv, with all their overwhelming female viewers they write for females.
Fiction stories have no NORMAL young male targeted stories. At least none that are not designed to sneek some sort of PC propaganda that cause normal humans to close the book and find something else.
Have Spacesuit will travel
etc. His early books were exactly what the publishers are failing to deliver. (later books were at tad.....off.)
Tom Swift?
Female teachers don’t care about boys. As a general rule they punish boys for being boys.
The mob union teachers give the few good a bad name.
Are “young adult” novels supposed to be read by anyone other than pre-teens anyway? I’d be worried about an actual young adult reading a “young adult” novel.
No young man ever benefitted from reading Jane Austen and “To Kill a Mockingbird” should be banned.
even comic books are being gutted in the name of PC.
The lady in charge of DC comics has burned all the continuity and rich history of good vs evil. All in the name of political correctness. (note all the pc-ified charaters have failed)
remember the throw rocks at boys t-shirts?
females being boss is assertive.
boys being boss is being a bull or a thought crime.
teachers praise girls who are rambunctious
teachers demand boys who are rambunctious be drugged into a stupor.
Teenage mothers are helped to finish school because education is important.
Teenage fathers are forced to drop out of school and told they have to forego education.
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