Guysread.com is a site brought to you by Jon Scieszka, author of The Stinky Cheese Man and The Time Warp Trio series. If you haven’t read The Stinky Cheese Man or The True Story of the Three Little pigs, then I recommend you rush to your library and grab it now. Some of the first and best fractured fairy tales ever and perfect to read to a class of Y3 and up.
Jon has taken his irreverent and hilarious approach to writing and channelled into a couple of good web sites – one, his pie-chart-filled personal site, is purportedly the on-line home of Jon Scieszka Worldwide, motto : There is no i in cheese. The other is Guys Read.
To borrow the description from the home page “Guys Read is an web-based literacy programme I’ve made to help boys find stuff they like to read.” Great intentions from the first National Ambassador of Young People’s Literature. On the site you can search for book recommendations based around other books you have enjoyed, find some sure-fire guys-picks, learn about setting up a Guys Read programme yourself and follow links to authors and illustrators web pages.
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