Great Battles for Boys Featured in AEI

Recently, Richard Hess of the American Enterprise Institute wrote a column about the Great Battles for Boys series. It began:

Youth reading is down today, and reading by boys has fallen off a cliff. Even worse, a big chunk of what passes for youth reading today is web content or graphic novels rather than actual books. Against that backdrop, the old social studies teacher in me was intrigued to discover Joe Giorello’s Great Battles for Boys books this summer. For more than a decade, he has been penning straightforward, no-bells-or-whistles books about the battles of the Revolutionary War, Civil War, World War II, and so forth. A glance at Amazon suggests that books have done gangbusters, with title after title a top seller in its category. What’s going on? Does Giorello know something that others don’t? I was curious to hear more, so I reached out to Giorello, a veteran middle school teacher who set out to write books for boys who hate to read (like his son). Here’s what he had to say... —Rick

The rest of Rick Hess' insightful column is here.