Florida Library Youth Program. (2008). http://flyp.library.florida.gov. Retrieved from http://flyp.library.florida.gov/node/358.
Reflection
Oh boys and programming...how I love, yet am freaked out by you all at the same time! I have always hated the whole "we need to work harder at getting boys into the library" convo tag. To me this demeans boys and they already don't get enough credit as it is. In fact, at my library boys are the ones that come to all of my programming, it is the girls that I have to work harder at getting to attend. This website does give great ideas though and I do believe that boys like to: blow things up (who doesn't), play, and win. But to say that girls don't, is dead wrong. I had a girl who loved creating odd but awesome sculptures in my art program for tweens...only to throw them on the floor to create her idea of "art". Who was I to argue. :)
I also want to mention that I hate the fact that people are constantly complaining that there are not enough books forboys and if there are, their characters are wimpy fart blowing booger picking jerks. Seriously? What about strong male characters like Percy Jackson or Harry Potter, what about Laurence Yeps strong and determined male characters or even the super sleuth Encyclopedia Brown? Boys have characters that appeal to them, some may like the gross behaivor in the Captain Underpants series but some may like books about history or solving mysteries. It seems like we are constantly downplaying boys and building a ceiling over their heads with our constant bickering over whether or not we are serving them properly. Leave them alone, they don't need our constant pushing, like girls, they will find something worth reading. Give them some credit.
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