[HPforGrownups] the trouble with harry (the 5 year old's perspective)

[John Walton]

No: HPFGUIDX 12241

I definitely think that the scariness factor depends on the child. My
youngest cousin is 5, and he's read (well, listened to, because he's
dyslexic) the first three books (my aunt, quite rightly, thinks that GoF
might be a little advanced for him this year) and LOVED them. He's also
listened to The Dark Is Rising sequence by Susan Cooper (read to him by my
aunt and uncle) and loved those -- and they can definitely be said to be
darker than HP.

OTOH, his older sister (8) was really freaked by them, and gave up because
she thought they were too scary. Go figure.

I think it's something about boys in our family. I had a reading age of
14-16 when I was 8, and was in the top literary percentile all through
elementary school. ::halo starts shining:: Maths, on the other hand...
::halo disappears in a small "pop!"::

--John

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John Walton                 john at walton.to

"Con-ser-va-tive, n. A statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as
distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others."
--Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary", 1842-c.1914

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