A seven-year-old in California scored a big win for the little guy (or, in this case, the little girl) by convincing Abdo Publishing to stop marketing their Biggest, Baddest Book of Bugs exclusively to boys. Young reader Parker Dains took umbrage with the title, and the other titles in the same series, writing:
You should change from “Biggest, Baddest Books for Boys’ into ‘Biggest, Baddest Books for Boys and Girls’ because some girls would like to be entomologists too.
As the Guardian notes, this victory joins a trend of de-gendering book titles following campaigns from children and parents around the world, championed also by popular authors including Neil Gaiman, Joanne Harris, and Malorie Blackman.