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Article on living books for boys
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http://www.memoriapress.com/articles/dangerous-article-boys.html
I don’t agree with EVERYTHING Cothran says here, but it is still a pretty good article. One son and I were just talking about culture and what the latest violent depressing superhero movies mean and why boys like them (and moms don’t!), so I found this especially germane. I do have ONE book caution–Cothran recommends EVERYTHING Farley Mowat wrote–I recommend ALMOST everything but there ARE a few books that are more about drinking than about anything else. However, most of the books homeschool moms run into, plus a few that many don’t know, are excellent!
Great article to start my son’s new school year. Thanks!
My son found the Percy Jackson series at the library. Do you have an opinion on these books?
Simple home,
My boys are too young for the Percy Jackson books, but I really enjoyed reading them. They really challenged my knowledge of Greek mythology, and had lots of action and adventure. Essentially, all the good characters in the book are demigods, the progeny of a Greek god and a human, or mythological creatures. Purely fantastical, but still interesting. I cannot vouch for their amazing literary quality, though I think they are well written in this day and age of garbage writing.
In your son is confident in his faith, and you are open to discussing the books with him (or reading the yourself; they are fun), I think they would be fine.
I am a juvenile literature junky, so I ate these up. I am glad I discovered the series after it was complete. I am not so patient. (wink)
HTH,
Katrina
Katrina, thanks for your info! My son is finding the first book interesting enough to talk to me about the details, so I’m comfortable with the content as long as he’s acknowledging that it is purely mythical and enjoys sharing it with me along the way. It’s hard for me to trust modern young adult books sometimes. 🙂
Great article. Thanks for sharing. I’ll be using some of these books this year with our boys. I’ll hang on to the list for future reference.
We’re Percy Jackson fans, too. I read them all with my ds 11. He is now re-reading them on his own. I’m very comfortable with them as he’s quite secure in what he believes and we’ve discussed them in great length when we read them together.
simple home,
Here is a link to a book review for the first one of the Percy Jackson books: http://www.focusonthefamily.com/parenting/protecting_your_family/book-reviews/l/lightning-thief.aspx
Thought this might be helpful to you. 🙂
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