Children's Lit

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No: HPFGUIDX 29579

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Beck, Jim" <beckj at p...> wrote:
> The children/adult literature question is like determining how many 
angels
> dance on the head of a pin.  Compared to what?  My daughter loves me 
to read
> to her from "children's" literature because of all the different 
voices I
> give to the various characters.  Aside from the various magic/occult
> references, the vocabulary in HP is considerably simpler than the 
language
> in the Wizard of Oz series.  Both series are children's books on one 
level
> and adult on another.  The authors' brilliance is being able to 
write for
> multiple audiences simultaneously.
>  
> -- Bexis

Agreed - mostly I oppose to the all adults/children shareout, unless 
it's obvious, not by content, but by the sentence-structure. Some 
books are difficult for an adult to get hold of because the sentences 
are too complicated and long. That's what I'd say is for adults. For 
children,  very young children there are picture books for teaching 
them the words... Most books are neither, really.