Let the Wild Rumpus Begin: Do Boys and Girls Learn Differently?

Two of my favorite books to read to my children were Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak and The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein. Sendak’s book about an energy-filled, imaginative boy is a biological howl: I am boy hear me roar. Silverstein’s book, conversely, is rooted in an essential, maternal nurturance. The books re…



