Pullman and Rowling (was Re: Sleepy Lupin/ Sneakoscope/ Uncomplicated JKR?)

[liana_l_s]

No: HPFGUIDX 33998

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Edblanning at a... wrote:
> In a message dated 23/01/02 22:55:49 GMT Standard Time, 
> jdumas at k... writes:
> By the way, I can't resist throwing in this quote from yesterday's 
Daily 
> Telegraph (UK broadsheet) apropos Philip Pullman winning the 
Whitbread prize:
> 
> 'Adult read JK Rowling because she is not complicated; children 
read Philip 
> Pullman because he is.'

>From 
http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/books/01/23/britain.whitbread.ap/index
.html:

"Pullman said he was grateful to Rowling for deflecting some of the 
criticism that might otherwise have been leveled against his books 
for their darker themes. 

"'I've been flying under the flak that she's created. People don't 
burn my books like they're burning poor old Harry,' Pullman said, 
referring to some parental disapproval of Rowling's use of 
witchcraft."

I thought that was interesting - having read the His Dark Materials 
trilogy, if there wasn't any Harry Potter to make a big fuss about 
those books probably -would- be burned! Wonderful books.