Oz, Narnia and JKR (was Guide to children's literature and HP)

[blpurdom at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 22829

Although my daughter was reluctant to read PoA at first because she 
thought it would be scary, once we were actually reading it, she 
never flinched.  Neither of my children have been scared by anything 
in any four books, in fact.

My son, however, asked me to stop reading "The House with a Clock in 
its Walls" because it was too scary, and the same thing happened with 
my daughter when we were reading "A Wrinkle in Time" and "The BFG" 
(Big Friendly Giant, by Roald Dahl).  My daughter liked the first Oz 
book, but I was bored to tears reading it to her.

JKR isn't scaring children any more than the above highly-respected 
authors, whose work was unequivocably classified as children's 
literature.  (Okay, Roald Dahl has been classified as "dark" 
children's literature.  Anyone care to suggest he wasn't a Muggle but 
actually a wizard?  He would have been in Slytherin, I suppose, were 
it not for the happy endings many of his books have...)

--Barb

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