We’ll be able to tell you about our new series of books that we think will particularly appeal to 6-9 year old boys very soon, but, meanwhile, here are the results of our survey of what boys in that age-group really like.
We had 23 responses, so it’s hardly YouGov, but many, many thanks to those of you who did respond.
Here, in descending order of popularity, is the list of things and places that boys who participated said they thought were cool:
- The future
- Big zappers (i.e. weapons)
- Outer space
- Centre of the earth
- Sharks
- Spies
- Sabre-toothed tigers
- Roman Soldiers
- Knights
- Robots
- Mars
- Deserts
- Aliens
- Deep sea
- Jungles
- Detectives
- Dinosaurs
- Medieval castles
- Ancient Egypt
- Vampires
- Zombies
- Skeletons
- Ghosts
- Gladiators
- Cars
- Mummies
- Vikings
- Pirates
- Haunted houses
- Mammoths
- Giant insects
- Gorillas
- Chimps
- Loos/poos