In a piece for PJ Media, Frank Miniter discusses what inspired him to write Cool Heroes for Boys—20 True Tales of Adventure.
When the woke mob was tearing down statues of George Washington, Christopher Columbus, and more in 2020, like so many, I was quickly appalled by the so-called online lessons his teachers were submitting his then eight-year-old intellect to, so I started searching for things for him to read.
I looked on my local library’s shelves for the good guys with six-shooters and laser guns I had grown up with, but could not find any such heroes in the youth section—a few of the titles were upstairs among the adult fiction.
He flipped through Harry Potter books, The Hunger Games stuff, and more and kept shaking his head.
“I don’t know dad, all these guys are dumb.”
“What do you mean?”
“There is always some girl who has to think for the boy,” he said. “That’s great for the girls, but I want a book where the boy hero is not stupid and, you know, where he does something cool.”