Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Stories for Boys Who Dare to Be Different and Running Press Kids.
This timely book joins the gender-role conversation and gives middle-grade boys a welcome alternative message: that masculinity can mean many things.Stories for Boys Who Dare to Be Different is an accessible compilation of 75 famous and not-so-famous men from the past to the present day, one that celebrates introverts and innovators, sensitivity and resilience, individuality and expression. Entries include rule-breakers and stereotype-smashers like Frank Ocean, Salvador Dali, Beethoven, Barack Obama, Ai Weiwei, Jesse Owens, and so many more-heroes from all walks of life and from all over the world.