Caution! Dangerous Books for Boys!

A great article by Martin Cothran on book selections for boys is to be found here.

Here is the book list from the end of the article:

• Farmer Boy, by Laura Ingalls Wilder (and anything else Wilder ever wrote)

• The Jack Tales, by Jonathan Chase

• Call it Courage, by Armstrong Sperry

• Robin Hood, by Roger Lancelyn Green

• King Arthur, by Roger Lancelyn Green

• Adam of the Road, by Elizabeth Janet Gray

• Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi

• Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson

• Lost in the Barrens, by Farley Mowat (and anything else Mowat ever wrote)

• Goodbye Kate, by Billy C. Clark (and anything else Clark ever wrote)

• The Bronze Bow, by Elizabeth George Speare

• The Mask of Zorro, by Johnston McCulley (and the rest of the Zorro books)

• The Scarlet Pimpernel and El Dorado, by Baroness Orczy (and the rest of the Scarlet Pimpernel books)

• Men of Iron, by Howard Pyle (and anything else Pyle ever wrote)

• Shane, by Jack Shaeffer

• The Hobbit, by J. R. R. Tolkien

• Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury

• Old Squire’s Farm, by C. A. Stephens

• Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe

• The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow, by Allan French

• Little Britches, by Ralph Moody

• Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain

• A Texas Ranger, by N. A. Jennings

• Penrod, by Booth Tarkington

• The Jungle Books, by Rudyard Kipling

• Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain

• The Worm Ouroboros, by E. R. Edison

• The Lord of the Rings, by J. R. R. Tolkien