[HPforGrownups] Re: picture books?

[Denise]

No: HPFGUIDX 749

After reading Sandman (no idea the author, sorry folks) and other comics of the same dark gendre (I LOVE DEATH!!!not Lady Death), I can see that artist doing an excellent job with creating a graphic (ack, what are they called again?) version of the books.  Not a children's dummied version, but a realistically correct to the source one.

:)
Dee

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Neil Ward 
  To: HPforGrownups at egroups.com 
  Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 5:42 PM
  Subject: Re: [HPforGrownups] Re: picture books?



       
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  With HP, on the other hand, I think Neil was asking
  >whether it's possible to imagine that Scholastic could edit the last 3
  >(arguably 4) books of the series so that all the material is appropriate
  >for the 9-12 yr old set.  Right?

  That is exactly what I meant, and I agree that it would be very difficult to
  achieve.  Perhaps there will be a natural decline in interest among the
  youngest stratum of readers as we began to see with GoF, I think.  The
  publishers may still think of this from a marketing point of view and Warner
  Brothers won't want to be losing the younger audience either.   

  Since it's been raised, the idea of a picture book version (or comic book
  version) of the Harry Potter books is intriguing, not as a means of
  simplifying the books or appealing to young children, but as an alternative
  format.  Wasn't this done with "Lord of the Rings" for example?  Imagine
  what some of those Japanese cartoonists would do with it.  

  >That's why I think the HP books present such a unique situation.  It's
  >hard to think of another series where the books start out aimed at (or
  >at least appropriate for) a young audience, but get progressively less &
  >less appropriate for the same audience as it continues.

  I think the media are largely to blame for misinterpreting the books as
  children's books *only* from the outset and failing to take on board the
  likely development, given the year-by-year progression through Hogwarts.
  Okay, I'm generalising, but even when adults have been mentioned in
  articles, it's invariably in the context of 'hey, adults like these books
  too!'  With GoF, journalists suddenly found themselves questioning the
  suitability for young children, as if the change in tone was a bolt from the
  blue.  They could have anticipated it, but they seemed to have largely
  ignored JKR's own comments on her intentions for the series.  She pays
  attention to her younger readers, but she has always been adamant that she
  won't tone things down in the later books.  

  If in doubt, blame the press!

  Neil
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