Is Harry Potter safe for young kids?
Over at the Charm City Moms blog today, they're considering the question: "What do you think is an appropriate age for kids to begin having Harry Potter (book 1) read to them?"
Blogger Kate Shatzkin turned to the Enoch Pratt Free Library for advice. Here's an excerpt from the answer prepared by Deborah Taylor, the Pratt's School and Student Services Coordinator, and Selma Levi, children's librarian at the Central Library:
"Rowling’s language and wordplay, especially in the first two books, make the books easy to read and understand but parents may find some of the imagery and circumstances in which Harry finds himself, a bit frightening for very young children. Each of the first two books builds to a very intense concluding episode. Parents should know how their child might react to a very high level of drama. From Book Three on, the books get increasingly dark and explore even more emotionally intense areas."
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Is Harry Potter safe for young kids?
I think when we see and read Harry Potter, we feel free and some of our stress is decreased. Although we know it is impossible, sometimes, we need to dream some impossible feeling. So I think
Harry Potter is safe for young kids.
Posted by: John | July 20, 2009 4:43 AM
Summer Poem-another sort of vilanelle
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You identify too much with frizzing whizzbees,
Me, I like orange berti botts.
Yr. whizzbees give me nothing but the willees!
Give em to muggles, now here's a thought,
Unless death eaters shake em silly,
Or inferis surround them with green snot.
I tried a cauldron cake, found it too gizzy,
And some one left my chocolate frogs to rot.
Draco Malfoy, now there's a skizzy,
But I'd trade him sickles if he had a knut.
Just leave me alone w yr. frizzing whizbees,
My friend is Merlin, yours- a monkey butt!
You sold yr. soul for frizzing whizzbees.
Me, I tried to give it all I've got;
But ended w these frigging berti bots.
(one day i'll do a good vilanelle-froginbog)
Posted by: david eberhardt | July 21, 2009 8:56 AM