This just in: my children are wildly different people.
Toby, my nine year old, just finished reading HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE by J.K. Rowling. He is now very cautious about entering dark rooms and sleeps with about five night lights on; he is voluntarily "taking a Harry Potter break" for a while.
Max, on the other hand (now almost eleven), once on the Harry Potter path as a nine year old, would not stop for a breather until he reached the end and didn't seem worse for the wear. (His admitted chicken-ness predates his reading of Harry Potter.)
We started this blog, or, rather, I started this blog because I was desperate that my children become readers and at the time my oldest seemed to need some motivation to become one. I thought contributing his reading experiences to a blog would be fun for him.
Well, it worked! (Many other factors contributed, of course. ; ) ) Both of my older children are "readers" and avid ones, at that. It has made the need for this blog less urgent.
Sharing reading experiences is still fun, however, and I still do constantly hear the questions "Do you have any good book recommendations for boys?" and "How do you get boys interested in reading?" I also read, daily it seems, some new article despairing the fact that boys just don't read. I think we'll start posting again (I'm hoping more will be from the boys themselves) to continue to try and answer those questions.
Latest reading update:
Hatcher- He's very into Richard Scarry's Please and Thank You Book, much to my pleasure.
Toby- Striving for something light and fun as a break from HP, I bought him SECRETS AT SEA by Richard Peck... I haven't read it but, well, the cover looked whimsical enough.
Max- He just finished THE SIGN OF THE BEAVER by Elizabeth George Speare last night; he loved it.
Me- I'm reading THE NOTORIOUS BENEDICT ARNOLD: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism, & Treachery by Steve Sheinkin.
Coming soon: My belated review of Laurel Snyder's BIGGER THAN A BREADBOX.
