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A really good book
Jul. 21st, 2008 10:40 pmThe kidlet has discovered Harry Potter.
For years I'd been kind of dreading this, because the series goes from fascinating-for-young-kids to really-inappropriate-for-young-kids very quickly, and the kidlet is not one to read books 1 through 3 and then wait a few years until their mother thinks they're prepared for, like, beloved characters being murdered onscreen and zombies and stuff. (Also I associate the books with inapproriate sexual shenanigans, but we needn't get into that.)
But they never showed the slightest interest. We did Pippi Longstocking and Laura Ingalls Wilder and Misty of Chincoteague, and then The Hobbit and the Enchanted Forest Chronicles and Amelia's Notebooks and The Jungle Book, and eventually Terry Pratchett and His Dark Materials, and last night when they said, "So. Harry Potter -- is it good?" I realized that they actually weren't too young any more.
They read the first half of Book 1 last night. "I don't want to go to bed. This is a good book." This morning I came down and found them on the couch. "I've been up since six-twenty," they said. "This is a really good book."
edited 2019 to retroactively correct the kidlet's gender pronouns
For years I'd been kind of dreading this, because the series goes from fascinating-for-young-kids to really-inappropriate-for-young-kids very quickly, and the kidlet is not one to read books 1 through 3 and then wait a few years until their mother thinks they're prepared for, like, beloved characters being murdered onscreen and zombies and stuff. (Also I associate the books with inapproriate sexual shenanigans, but we needn't get into that.)
But they never showed the slightest interest. We did Pippi Longstocking and Laura Ingalls Wilder and Misty of Chincoteague, and then The Hobbit and the Enchanted Forest Chronicles and Amelia's Notebooks and The Jungle Book, and eventually Terry Pratchett and His Dark Materials, and last night when they said, "So. Harry Potter -- is it good?" I realized that they actually weren't too young any more.
They read the first half of Book 1 last night. "I don't want to go to bed. This is a good book." This morning I came down and found them on the couch. "I've been up since six-twenty," they said. "This is a really good book."
edited 2019 to retroactively correct the kidlet's gender pronouns