A Sense of Betrayal

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 174424

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "allies426" <AllieS426 at ...> wrote:
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> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sylviampj" <autr61@> wrote:
> >
> > JKR started out 
> > writing delightful children's stories, with which like all good 
> > children's stories are popular with adults who like to escape into a 
> > fantasy world.
> 
> SNIP
> 
> 
> >But I think 
> > she boxed herself in from the beginning into a children's story 
> > format and never really managed to break out of it. 
> > 
> 
> Allie:
> 
> You'll see them called "children's books" over and over in the media 
> and elsewhere, but I don't think that was actually the author's 
> intent.  I've read in more than one place where JKR has said that she 
> wasn't writing "children's" books, she just wrote the story that she 
> envisioned, and it was purchased in the US by Bloomsbury, a children's 
> book publisher.  There are mythology and literature references in the 
> books that most children wouldn't understand.

Geoff:
Permit me to correct you in saying that the books were first published 
by Bloomsbury who are a UK publisher.

It was /after/ this that Scholastic started to produce the books in the 
US.