The darker side of HP

brooksindy brooksindy at yahoo.com
Fri Aug 11 16:05:00 UTC 2000


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No: HPFGUIDX C6630
From: brooksindy
Subject: Re: The darker side of HP
Reply To: [Yahoo! #6625] Re: The darker side of HP
Date: 8/11/00 12:05 pm  (ET)

> but *are* there very many bildungsroman or "coming of age"
> series where the earliest books in the series are >appropriate for
younger readers but the later ones >are not? In the case
>of the "coming of age" series with which I am most >familiar, Little
House books by Laura Ingalls
>Wilder, that is not true.

I do not think it is true of the Prydain books either, even though in
the course of five books the lead child characters also go from about
eleven or so to about 18.






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