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Opinion on age-appropriateness of Harry Potter BOOKS.
This is specific to the books, not the movies.
Sam has shown interest in reading the HP books. Most people I know with older kids started reading them around age 8 or 9, but Sam's reading skills and comprehension are pretty advanced, so I was considering allowing him to read the Sorcerer's Stone. Do you think 6 is too young for the first book? He doesn't cry or cringe at scary movie scenes anymore, but he's not completely comfortable with them either. (I would definitely space them out so he won't be reading the scarier books until he gets older. I'm just referring to the first book.)
Re: Opinion on age-appropriateness of Harry Potter BOOKS.
It has been so long since I read the first book. But I think it's ok for a 6 year old. You might let him read one a year... like they were released.
Maddie has seen the first movie but that is it.
- Paula Deen to 104.1 KRBE's Producer Eric 9/17/2011
Maren is 6 and we're starting her on them now. She blows through things like Magic Tree House so quickly, that I figured we needed to up the ante for her.
She had a high threshold for "scary" things, so I'm not worried. She's massively into Egyptian culture and has read so many non-fiction books that go into significant detail about mummification, etc - and she just wants to read more and more. No nightmares, no behavioral issues, nothing at all that would indicate she couldn't hack it.
Plus we've already started watching the HP movies. She loves them. Maybe I'm too lax in this area, but for some reason I never really felt like HP was too much for her.
I say if you feel he can handle it - go for it!
Thanks for the feedback, ladies.
Michelle, the one per year is a great plan. Good idea!
monkaloo, Sam is the same way on the Magic Treehouse. I bought a few others like that for Christmas, and he reads them at bedtime every now and then, but overall is bored with them. I also tried to get some that are a bit longer, but still under 150 pages or so, and he's still interested in those (like E.B. White and Beverly Cleary type of stuff), but I fear he will outgrow those soon as well. Other than HP, I will also probably go with some Lemony Snicket, and perhaps the How to Train your Dragon series. Longer length, but the storyline is lighter.
oh my gosh! get him The Mouse and the Motorcycle : )
connor LOVED that book, could not stop talking about it. it was one of his first "real" chapter books. he could barely read about that mouse without giggling and having to stop and come tell us what the mouse was doing.
maybe try something like Binnicula and see how he handles the vampire rabbit? lol... then move on to harry potter.
if he has the attention span for it at this age, i don't see anything wrong with it.
i also feel sometimes that movies are scarier than books. a movie that might not quite be right could be fine for him as a book, ya know?
the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books are pretty engrossing as well to the little-boy demographic.
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my mother is a first grade teacher, and every year she has at least one or two of her "good readers" reading them at home with their parents.
I was thinking the opposite. Books are both more enjoyable and scarier to me because you build anticipation of the storyline of the course of days. And you can't fast forward through the scary parts as easily. :-)
But again, I think the first Potter books were written for younger kids and then get scarier and more mature as those same kids grew.
- Paula Deen to 104.1 KRBE's Producer Eric 9/17/2011
i can read monstery books and murdery mystery type scary creepy stuff, but movies and the visual aspect are sometimes too much for me.
it's funny how people can be so different!
that being said, i was readng this book called "Chromosome 6" about animal experimentation once, and it really super creeped me out (the animals were becoming more human-like) so much that i had to stop reading it...lol.
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Jax - maybe it reflects my sick and twisted imagination vs. the average person. What is in my mind might just be scarier and crazier than the director's interpretation for the movie.
<insert monster emoticon>
- Paula Deen to 104.1 KRBE's Producer Eric 9/17/2011
This is how I am too. I read The Exorcist when I was a kid, probably around 6th grade, and it was so frightening to me that I ran out of the house! I saw the movie later on as an adult and I didn't think it was nearly as scary as the book.