Jo's OWN Words/Harry using Crucio/I am about to Rant/Danger Designating the

[allies426]

No: HPFGUIDX 174501

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sistermagpie" 
<sistermagpie at ...> wrote:
>
> > 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.
> 
> Magpie:
> They got bought by the children's division Bloomsbury (in the UK) 
> because that's where JKR correctly sent them--to a children's 
> publisher. She wouldn't have sent them to that publisher if she 
> didn't consider them children's books. What she said about writing 
> them was not that she didn't intend them for kids (who else could 
she 
> have intended PS for, really?), but that she set out to write the 
> story she wanted to write and they happened to be childen's (and 
> later YA) books. 

Allie again:

I really don't know the answer to this one - but didn't she send the 
story to many publishers initially and finally it was purchased by 
Bloomsbury?  Were they all children's publishers?