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For the longest time, you couldn’t even say boys and girls were different. It was taboo in the educational world.

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Jon Scieszka

For a lot of kids, reading is not magical. It’s really hard work.

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The big problem is just this kind of gigantic piece, of kids reading less and liking it less and so getting worse at it. It’s kind of this terrible spiral: Since they’re not so good at it they do less of it, get worse at it, do less of it. And it’s really what I discovered five, six years ago when I started the ‘Guys Read’ thing.

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I like to tell kids that I started thinking about stories when I first started reading stuff like Dr. Seuss and ‘Go, Dog. Go!,’ thinking, ‘Oh yeah, that’s funny. I’d like to do that.’ And then writing throughout school, but at the same time I was studying pre-med stuff, because my mom told me I should be a doctor.

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I always loved strange stories like the Dr. Seuss stuff. ‘Go, Dog. Go!’ was one of my favorite stories – it still is. It’s just such a bizarre yet true book. And I did well reading and writing as a kid throughout school. I think early on that’s what made me realize what an advantage that is.

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Just looking at pictures’ used to be considered cheating. No longer. The graphic novel is booming. Comics, heavily illustrated texts, books with no words are now accepted as reading.

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I’m not sure what to call ‘Lego Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary.’ Nonfiction? Movie/toy fiction? But it is any Lego/’Star Wars’ kid’s dream. Call it spectacular.

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Jeff Kinney’s ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ series and Stephenie Meyer’s ‘Twilight’ books got 49,323,701 kids reading.

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I think every parent knows that, like, boys and girls are different. And we just don’t take that into account in schools on those things like required reading lists. ‘Cause that was my experience, say, with my son, who had to read ‘Little House on the Prairie’ when he was in third grade.

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I am honored to have served as our great nation’s first National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. I will continue to serve as Ambassador Emeritus. And I will make good on my Ambassadorial promise to my wife to stop playing the ‘Fanfare’ every time I walk into or out of a room.

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Avoid demonizing television, computer games, and new technologies. Electronic media may compete for kids’ attention, but we’re not going to get kids reading by badmouthing other entertainment. Admit that TV and games can do things books can’t.

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Jon Scieszka

Be a good reading role model. Show kids what you like to read, what you don’t like to read, how you choose what you read. Let them see you reading.

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