Books for boys can be hard to choose.
Parents who want to encourage the reading habit can sometimes feel that they are fighting a losing battle when their kids eschew books for all the other distractions of the modern boy’s existence.
Video games, play station, TV, computer games, football, playing with friends, judo, swimming club, chatting on the mobile, surfing the net…. there are so many more activities to occupy boys attention nowadays than in the heyday of Arthur Ransome.
Yet the more the modern child is bombarded by multi-media, the more children appear to be affected by attention deficit disorders, finding it hard to concentrate on a paragraph, let alone a whole novel.
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