A dating guide written by a nine-year-old US boy is being published in Britain in time for Valentine’s Day.<\/p>\n
Alec Greven originally wrote How To Talk To Girls as a pamphlet for a creative writing project in Castle Rock, Colorado.<\/p>\n
Local media got hold of his pamphlet when he sold it at a school fair to help fund a new running track, reports the Daily Telegraph.<\/p>\n
He was invited on to Ellen DeGeneres’s television chat show, an appearance which prompted the publisher HarperCollins to sign him up.<\/p>\n
Alec’s tips, based entirely on his observations of his schoolmates, was turned into a 46-page book which spent five weeks in the New York Times best-seller’s list. Then in December, Fox gave Alec a six-figure film deal.<\/p>\n
Now the pithy guide is likely to achieve similar success in Britain when it arrives in bookshops in time for the most romantic day of the year, Saint Valentine’s Day.<\/p>\n
Nuggets of advice include combing your hair, cutting down on sugar and knowing that while 73% of regular girls “ditch boys”, the rate increase to 98% for pretty girls.<\/p>\n
He wrote that: “It is easy to spot pretty girls because they have big earrings, fancy dresses and all the jewellery. Pretty girls are like cars that need a lot of oil.”<\/p>\n
Greven says he managed to become a dating expert at such a young age by watching his classmates try their luck with the opposite sex.<\/p>\n
He said: “Let’s say a boy was going to try and say ‘Hi’ to a girl he likes, I would stand nearby and peek and listen in. If a problem happened twice, I put it in my book. If something worked a few times, I put it in my book, too. I did research around the playground.”<\/p>\n
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