biggest SPOILER _ Children's Books?

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Steve/asian_lovr2:
> JKRowling did not write these as children's books. She wrote the 
>story for herself, and wrote it the way it came to her. She never 
>took her original vision and in any way adapted it for children. 
(snip)
>It was the Publishing company's marketing department who decided 
>the books could best be marketed to children. 

   Absolutely!  Consider Lord of the Rings.  It begins with what 
might be considered a children's tale (The Hobbit) and then develops 
into a major mythic saga.  But, because Hobbit came first, LOTR was 
at first considered a children's or at most a teenage set of books  
by the publishers.

Jeanette