This was bound to happen I think. After decades of helping girls catch up in the sciences, and the big deal everyone was making about how girls get noticed less in school, well they caught up. But now we have a new problem boys are now "behind" in reading and language skills. Well they were always behind, but now that girls are as good in the things boys were supposedly "just better" at, it occurs to someone they don't read as well as they could.

I have a co-worker who has an elementary schooler who hates to read. He doesn't like reading, he doesn't do too well at it in school either. She and her husband try very hard to find things for him to read that he might be interested in. guysread.com is a website about the guys read initiative to get boys more interested in reading by providing suggestions of books boys might like.

Guess what they don't dig things like Little House on the Prairie and Black Beauty and I suspect Judy Blume books aren't high on the list of things they like. But look how suprizing boys loved Harry Potter duh? a male protagonist? an intersting story? I think it can't hurt for somebody to start a list of boy friendly books.