From: Susan Daugherty <kdaugherty>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 10:42:30 -0600

It strikes me as somewhat simplistic to say that kids who are involved in sports don't want to read about it. I think that real readers, many of them anyway, like to read about everything. I could only get sports books about boys when I was a kid, so I read those, but I also did sports as much as a girl could back then. There were no organized teams to speak of. I found sports fiction really exciting. If kids live and breathe a sport, they will usually read about it too. Boys and girls, I think. I think our society pushes boys toward an intense interest in sports, and that is why they read about it; their fathers are interested in it, and they think that is what they should be doing.

Susan Daugherty


At 03:44 PM 1/25/99 00, you wrote: any of you out there working with kids in schools or public libraries have any responses? Do you find the same holds true with girls as with many boys
(i.e. the ones involved in sports don't want to read about it.)? And do girls who don't play sports want to read about them? Susan Daugherty Librarian Franklin Elementary School Madison, WI 53705
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