There are horrible children’s books.  Seriously. These books are sickly sweet and predictable, sometimes with happy (sappy?) les...

Jon Scieszka, children’s book author and the nation’s first National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, founded Guys Read to “to m...

In the introduction to Funny Business , the first genre-specific volume from the Guys Read Library, Jon Scieszka quotes E. B. White.  “Humo...

When you’re the new kid in fifth grade, the last thing you want is to draw any negative sort of attention on the first day of school. So whe...

Robot Zot is a Wham Bot! A Bam Bot! Robot Zot is unstoppable, and he's about to conquer the blue planet out his ship's porthole. Ea...

My initial thought after reading Knucklehead by Jon Scieszka was that it might be in my best interests to not share it with students. Aft...

Guys Write for Guys Read is a collection of 92 stories, memories, illustrations, comics, excerpts, one report card, and a forward by Jon Sci...