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Little boys don’t like reading any more and even little girls don’t enjoy it as much as they once did: This
is the accepted wisdom inside the book industry-and in many British families, too. Parents and booksellers
tend to blame the growing appeal of online entertainment and hand-held video games, but research from the US is challenging these assumptions,
Michael J. Normis, an American publishing expert, will release findings in the monthly Book Publishing
Report which show that, despite the best intentions, it is well-meaning mothers and fathers who often stop
their sons and daughters from picking up the reading habit.
"Parents have too much of a role in deciding habit. which books their children are going to read," said Norris. “It is turning children off.”
The results of a number of surveys Norris has carried out with hundreds of American booksellers over the past year have provided the basis for