.......Ummmmmmmmmm, no.
There's plenty of good stuff to read out there for boys. Nose-picking jokes are fine, in small quantities. But, steady diet of them is no better for a kid than a steady diet of chips and soda.
However, I make the assumption that the parents actually read, themselves. And Care. It's shocking, to me, of the number people's houses (friends, family, co-workers) that I go into and find nothing more substantial to read than "People" magazine.
Mrs WBill and I could stock a medium-sized library. Not everyone can go to that extreme.....but library cards (at least locally for me) are free.
I’m in a line of work where I’m in many people’s homes. I’m continually amazed by the number of “educated” people who have no books in their homes.
Myself, I trip over them a lot.