From: Nancy Bo Flood <wflood_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 07:44:03 -0700

Thank you, Beth, for several important insights.

Nonfiction is the more frequent book choice by boys, beginning in middle grade, and is a preference that continues into adulthood. Boys prefer in formation and action. Females usually prefer fiction. Who chooses poetry? Or what kind of poetry? I haven't seen any research about poetry preferen ces.

Literacy studies from child psychology show that boys prefer books with act ion and information (note that Beth's boy-book list included adventure fict ion, fantasy, and graphic novels). Girls prefer books that show the up s and downs of relationships. This information is a shift from looking at the gender of the protagonist or theme of the book to looking at what drive s the story - events or dialogue.

Nancy Bo Flood author and also a child psychologist

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