Schools Minister Jim Knight shares a book with Eileen Armstrong, Chair of the School Library Association and Ingrid Hopson, SLA School Librarian of the Year 2007 after inviting every maintained secondary school in England to choose 20 free books for their library from the 'Boys into Books' list, compiled by the School Library Association and designed to encourage 11 to 14 year old books to re-ignite their passion for reading.

 For details abou the booklists and intiative, see previous posting 'Boys Into Books'.

But what do you think? Do boys read? Is it a problem? Whose problem? Add your comments in the forum.