THE JOURNAL TO ACCOMPANY THE AWARD-WINNING AND BESTSELLING STORIES FOR BOYS WHO DARE TO BE DIFFERENTJohn Lennon, Gandhi, Trevor Noah, Grayson Perry, Roald Dahl, Martin Luther King... all dared to be different - and now young boys can too with this fun and enlightening guided journal.STORIES FOR BOYS WHO DARE TO BE DIFFERENT JOURNAL is full of tips and ideas to help boys everywhere explore their dreams and release their creativity in an environment where emotions and feelings are celebrated. Thanks to an array of imaginative and thoughtful prompts, and short biographies of some real-life inspiring figures who followed their personal dreams, this journal will help boys construct their own world away from gender stereotypes and social conventions. Activities include:Devising a plot for a film in which your biggest fear is quashedIdentifying what cause you would go out and protest forCreating a list of characteristics about human beings for aliens Imagining what would make you happy a week, a month, ten years from now It is the must-have journal for all those boys who worry about stuff and all those parents who worry about their boys who worry about stuff. ___________Praise for STORIES FOR BOYS WHO DARE TO BE DIFFERENT:"This book can save lives. This book can change lives. This book can help to bring forth another generation of boys who dare to be different" - Benjamin Zephaniah"[The stories] coalesce into a rousing symphony of against-the-odds achievement" - Financial Times"It will help to inspire a younger generation to understand that you don't have to be tough, strong and a dragon killer to be worthwhile" - Stylist"Offer[s] a refreshing twist . . . and will encourage young boys to resist the gender stereotypes that can damage men as much as women" - Daily Express
About the Author
Ben Brooks (born 1992 in Gloucestershire) is the author of the novels:Grow Up,Fences,An Island of Fifty,The Kasahara School of Nihilism,Upward Coast and Sadie, Lolito,Everyone Gets Eaten, andHurra. Writing for children, he has published theSunday TimesandNew York TimesbestsellerStories For Boys Who Dare to Be Different,Stories For Boys Who Dare to be Different 2,Stories For Kids Who Dare to be Different,The Impossible Boy, andThe Greatest Inventor. His first non-fiction book for adults,Things They Don't Want You To Know, was published byQuercusin September 2020.He contributed the storyKimchi or a Partial List of Misappropriated Hood Ornamentsto Frank Ocean'sBoys Don't Cry, accompanying the release of 2016 album Blonde.
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