The government initiative will ask library staff to select suitable books for boys from a list put together by the School Library Association, before delivering them in "book boxes" to local schools.
Primary Boys into Books is the first scheme to use Department for Children, Schools and Families funding to link public libraries to schools.
Pre-school children are also to benefit from the government's drive to promote reading through the Book Ahead project, which will launch a reading list for young children tomorrow (19 June).
Both schemes are part of the National Year of Reading.
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