Progression of the books

[thekrenz]

No: HPFGUIDX 99453

<snip conversation between Dave and Geoff, #99424>

Geoff:
> On the question of younger children reading the later books, 
> which was raised in a recent post on this thread, one of the 
> families in my church is, like me, well into HP. Their youngest 
> child, a girl of 8, got through OOTP quite safely in a few days 
> and was able to talk about it quite happily and enjoy the story.


I began reading the entire series to my children (7 and 10) about 3 
months ago.  The oldest tried reading them herself, but *gasp* 
doesn't really enjoy reading very much.  I, on the other hand can't 
read enough, so I used reading TO my kids as an excuse to read the HP 
books yet again.  The are truly enjoying the stories and seem to have 
little if any trouble following the complexites as Harry and his 
world grow and mature.  We are now about 1/3 into OotP and the 
youngest is anticipating some of the plot line.  (How cool is that!)
I suppose what I am saying is, don't underestimate the comprehension 
skills of children.  

Cyndi
(This is my first post, so don't be too hard on me. Please.)