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Anonymous
Posted January 16, 2010
These works are classics because they are models of literature. Although Barnes & Noble would only have young boys buy these books, they are model works of literature for boys AND girls.
I do hope Barnes & Noble plans to be consistent with its no-girls rule by labeling its entire math and science sections "for boys only" too...
6 out of 15 people found this review helpful.
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Posted September 16, 2010
Boys don't read. These are the works that might hold their attention long enough to get them to the last page. No intelligent person believes B&N is suggesting these are exclusively for boys.
5 out of 6 people found this review helpful.
Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.Every book in the set was sent it perfect condition and had no physical damage at all. It is a great set for boys with a higher vocabulary than most, although there are handy footnotes that help you with most challenging words. They all have an outstanding storyline and are written by well known authors. If you are in to stories with a great storyline, great characters, authors, and plots, then you should purchase this book set. There is no better price out there for this many wonderful classical stories.
3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.
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Posted June 9, 2011
you nutty ladies, B&N is just trying to help people like me find a package that would appeal to my son who happens to have a different preferences than girls. Yes he's read Little House on the Prairie for me, and enjoyed it but he's not going to devour the series like I did as a kid, different biological makeup.. face it... they like macho stuff most of the time! Let people be!
2 out of 3 people found this review helpful.
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Posted October 25, 2010
Thank you for putting together collections for both boys and girls! I agree, lighten up, loves. Buy the collection for boys and girls a like. Still, it's really great to be able to find the books grouped like this and I at least realize that it's just a suggestion on who might like to read them. Not an absolute demand that this set only be purchased for boys. Can't please everyone! Anyway, thanks again and I've purchased both sets!
2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.
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Posted September 28, 2010
THANK YOU to Barnes & Noble for grouping some books together that would appeal to boys! I have no problem with the label and of course girls can read them too, but if you are trying to decide which of the classics to buy for your boys, these are some very good choices that *most* boys would like!
2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.
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Posted September 15, 2010
The books look great. But I am so turned off by the marketing of the adventure stories package as "for boys." Yes, I know that girls and their parents have the prerogative to buy them as well, but children are easily manipulated by marketing. And it just perpetuates the pigeon-holing many parents are battling against. The same goes for the "for girls" label on the fantasty package. It is sooo last century. I have a girl and a boy, who are happy to read both. Come on, Barnes & Noble, how about removing the gender labels from your categories and join the rest of us in the (post-feminist?!) 21st century.
Susan Buchsbaum
2 out of 12 people found this review helpful.
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Posted September 27, 2010
I think this is a great package and I'm not at all bugged by the 'for boys' lable they put on it. They took books they thought boys MIGHT like. If you want to buy them for girls then go for it. Crazy over-opinionated people.
1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.
Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.I don't know how someone can tell mother's to lighten up and then in the same sentence state that boys do not read. I have to agree with the mothers as I am one, it is hard to teach boys and girls they are allowed to like the same things when the rest of the world works against you. If B&N was not implying that these are books for boys, then why did they state exactly that?
1 out of 7 people found this review helpful.
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Posted July 6, 2010
These are a great collection of books that I bought for a young family friend and the classics for girls for their younger daughter and they both greatly enjoyed each. Even though the name says "Boys will be boys" it doesn't mean that girls can't enjoy it as well, nor does saying "classics for girls" mean boys won't enjoy a few books in that collection as well. Most boys find science fiction to be more enjoyable than enchantment but that doesnt mean its strictly for boys, I thought most people would understand that on here but I guess for not.
1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.
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Posted August 21, 2011
Calm. Down. The title is yes "Classics for Boys" it does not mean that they are only for boys. they even have a classics for girls if it makes you feel better. i was given this set as a gift and before hand, i would of never picked up a classic. now, i only shop for classics. every month i log onto Barnes and Noble to purchase a set of their classics series. My girlfriend read Kim and loved it. they aren't just for boys. they are the classics that show boys that "Oh classics aren't dumb and are worth reading"
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Posted November 8, 2010
When I was a boy, I loved these books and I still do!!! Great package here. Highly recommended!
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Posted September 15, 2010
I also am appalled B&N that you would label these for boys. These books hold wonderful insights to culture and humanity from which anyone at any age can glean benefit.
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Overview
Transport children to a time when excitement seemed to lurk around every corner with these classic tales of action, adventure, and exploration.- Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
- Kim by Rudyard Kipling
- Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
- The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
- Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
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