Too Old For Harry Potter

[ER <ression@hotmail.com>]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, Dominique Medal 
<strayaluna at b...> wrote:
> <snip> If it's a good book, better than much of the drivel written 
> for adults, then why not read it?
> 

Someone, C.S. Lewis perhaps, said something like this -

Any child's book worth reading at ten that isn't worth reading at 
fifty isn't worth reading.

Ignoring the second age limit, that's pretty much how I feel about 
it! I've just been re-reading (and enjoying) some old E. Nesbit 
books. She has a lovely sense of the ridiculous, a nice writing style 
that doesn't treat children as total idiots, much warm humour and a 
great imagination. And, like JKR, she throws in little observations 
that would go straight over a child's head and which are thus, 
presumably, aimed at adult readers.

Now, where did I put my Narnia/Famous Five books ...

Yuletide felicitations :)

ER