Repeated reading to kids (was:Censoring your kids' reading)

[Anne]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "psychic_serpent" 
<psychic_serpent at y...> wrote:
>> --Barb, who's glad that the kids now repeatedly read things by JK 
> Rowling, Roald Dahl, Eva Ibbotson, Jane Langton and Laura Ingalls 
> Wilder

My daughter (who will be 7 in August) has listened to my reading of 
PS/SS, CoS, POA and GoF twice since late last July. She started off 
being able to listen to only 10-15 pages at a time, but by the second 
reading of GoF (which we began around Eastern this year) she was able 
to listen to a lot more at each reading, including one sitting of 65 
pages. Now as she finishes 1st grade, she is starting to read out 
loud to us (no, not HP, just Frog & Toad) -- but it's still 
thrilling. Maybe in a few years she'll read PS/SS to me. I can assure 
you that when *I* was six years old, no one would have considered 
reading a 300 page book to me, much less one that's 734 pages. Only 
17 days and a few hours till OotP!

Anne U
(newly engrossed in Barb's series, about 7 chapters into HP & the 
Time of Good Intentions:-)