[HPforGrownups] Arthur and Harry Potter
Kathleen Kelly MacMillan
kathleen at carr.org
Sun Sep 24 00:33:42 UTC 2000
No: HPFGUIDX 1990
>Watching the television this morning with my son, I enjoyed seeing (a repeat)
an episode of Arthur that reminded me of Harry Potter. The children were
enthused about reading, something that many of the parents found amazing
(again, like HP!). A
>few parents got together, though, and created an Anti-"Scare Your Pants off
book" group called PAWS (Parents against Weird Stories), and had the books
banned from the library. The episode went on to explain why the books were a
good thing, and the
>lead parent in the group hadn't even read the series, so the author, who was
revealed, read him one of the book. The basic "moral" of the show was don't
condemn something you haven't read. I wonder if we could make this show
required reading for
>the HP banners?
I know this is extremely unrelated, but involves Arthur and HP too, and I have
been lurking too much lately, so here goes!
I knew I was too HP-obsessed when I was reading one of the "Arthur" chapter
books (I'm a children's librarian, it's part of my job!) and noticed how the
interplay between Arthur and Buster is very similar to that between Harry and
Ron. I shared this observation with another librarian, who merely shook her
head and walked away.
Kathy
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