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Bedtime Stories for Boys Who Dare to be Different
- Author
- Ben Brooks
- Publisher
- Quercus
- Publish Date
- 9 October 2025
- Run Time
- 6 hours 6 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Our boys need a new kind of hero. Rule-breakers and innovators who aren't afraid to think outside and be themselves, whatever people think about how men should behave. Bedtime Stories for Boys Who Dare to Be Different is a collection of the lives of 200 incredible men from all over the world - from David Attenborough to Beethoven to Stormzy - who succeeded through brains, not brawn, and who will inspire young boys everywhere to follow their dreams.
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Details
- Author
- Ben Brooks
- Narrator
- Alex Wingfield, Joshua Higgott, Thomas Judge
- Duration
- 6 hours 6 minutes
- Release Date
- 9 October 2025
- ISBN
- 9781529448825
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Quercus
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage: Anthologies, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Biographical fiction / autobiographical stories, Children’s / Teenage: Social issues / topics
Synopsis
Who wants to fall asleep to tales of dragons being slain, wars being fought, and princesses being rescued who, quite frankly, could have rescued themselves?Our boys need a new kind of hero. Rule-breakers and innovators who aren't afraid to think outside and be themselves, whatever people think about how men should behave. Bedtime Stories for Boys Who Dare to Be Different is a collection of the lives of 200 incredible men from all over the world - from David Attenborough to Beethoven to Stormzy - who succeeded through brains, not brawn, and who will inspire young boys everywhere to follow their dreams.
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