What about the cinderfellas? Opportunities to promote literacy to teenage boys using fairy tales

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  • Ray MacLeod Dalhousie University

Keywords:

Young adult fiction., Libraries., Fairy Tales.

Abstract

How fairy tales can be used to increase interest in reading for teenage boys with examples of gender neutral materials.

Author Biography

Ray MacLeod, Dalhousie University

Ray MacLeod has just completed his first year in the masters of Library and Information Management program at Dalhousie University. He is interested in academic librarianship and Web 2.0 and social curation opportunities in libraries and archives. His favorite fairy tale is Disney‘s Sleeping Beauty because of the quality of the animation and coloring.

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