E-Mail Gender stereotypes around reading may be holding boys back in the classroom, according to a new study published in the peer-reviewed In what is described as an 'unexpected' and 'significant' finding, fiction is the most favoured reading genre for schoolboys compared with non-fiction, comics and magazines. Well over half (57%) of the boys said they liked fiction or story books 'a lot' according to research based on more than 300 pupils aged from seven to eight in Australia. Girls were more likely to rate enjoyment of reading non-fiction more highly than boys (55% vs 51%). The resul...