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Harry Potter and young people's books
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Tue, 1 Aug 2000 15:27:43 GMT
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All those strange permutations of debate based off the Harry Potter books
becoming a Lego line. Which leads into...
The actual Harry Potter books. My wife bought it for my son (9) to read, but
he seems to have stopped. Having some time to kill, I read the first chapter
of the third book (it was at hand) to him, and he seemed to like it. So what
was wrong with the first book?
Now, I'll read "children's" books. I have a large collection of illustrated
books, but that's more for the art. I suppose it stems from going to a
parochial school from 1st to 4th grade. Various books on lives of saints or
Dr. Seuss did not do it for me. When I escaped to public school, I finally had
a good library I could get at daily. I found out what the Newbury Award was.
I became an after-school library helper just so I could snag the popular books
when they came back in.
But there's a lot I missed, and a lot of good books written since then. So
when I get a book for my son, I'll often read it myself.
But getting back to the first Harry Potter book. The first two chapters Harry
gets dumped on, and not till the third do things liven up for him.
Predictably, my son got stalled just before the start of the third chapter.
It's was just a matter of a little nudge to get him going again.
Of course, I had to finish the book. A fun story. I'm not sure why it is a #1
bestseller, but these things take on a life of their own.
So where am I going with this? I'm interested in peoples' non-adult favorite
books (be it Harry Potter or otherwise). I'd have to say that Lloyd
Alexander's Chronicles of Prydain (The Book of Three, The Black Cauldron, The
High King, etc.) remain my favorite. Great writing, memorable characters, fun
to read, but still had a point to make.
Bruce
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Message has 4 Replies:
 | | Re: Harry Potter and young people's books
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| some of my favorites: Bridge to Terabithia - by Katherine Paterson Where the Wild Things Are - by Maurice Sendak The Giving Tree - by Shel Silverstein I also liked the Chronicles of Narnia.. but i haven't read them in ages. Bridge to Terabithia and (...) (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | Re: Harry Potter and young people's books
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| (...) Great subject! My favorite kids books (many I still have from when I was a kid)... Narnia, fist and foremost, especially The Last Battle all the Swallows and Amazons books Many Rudyard Kipling books, esp Puck of Pook's Hill (*still* gives me (...) (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | Re: Harry Potter and young people's books
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| (...) Why is this a "debate" topic? Seems to me personal preference is just that, preference, not a debatable thing. So this thread belongs in .fun. Can we debate that? :-) (...) I would go with the Heinlein juveniles as a group. "Have spacesuit, (...) (24 years ago, 2-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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