Harry Potter
Jul. 30th, 2012 07:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chhotiiMom gave Sophia the first 2 Harry Potter books a couple of weeks ago. Sophia took right to them. She loves them utterly. Everything is Hogwarts this and Muggles that these days. So, of course, she immediately started begging me to get her the rest of the series.
I've never read the Harry Potter books. I figured I'd get to it when Sophia started reading them. (Now I'm trying to catch up, as I don't spend as much time reading as Sophia does.) So I don't know what the rest of the series is like, except that the later books are supposed to be for bigger kids, although I have heard of 6 year olds reading the entire series. I spoke to some other parents, asking "I know these ramp up a lot in maturity-- should I hold off on giving them to Sophia?" I was told, oh yeah, the books start getting seriously scary from book 4 onwards; besides, in later books it's more work to keep track of the plot arc well enough to make sense of it.
On a day off, Mom called with "helpful" suggestions for how we could spend our time, and said "how about if you go to the bookstore and buy the rest of the Harry Potter books?"-- I had to explain no, they really get scary, we are going to put that off, and Sophia will understand because she doesn't like to get too scared-- but Sophia was not deterred and was bouncing up and down at this idea. "Bookstore! Bookstore!" So we went to Barnes and Noble and I bought JUST BOOK THREE DAMNIT, and spent entirely too much money on other silly stuff.
I think Sophia is done with a first reading of book 3, and she is lobbying to get book 4 now of course. She's re-reading the books she has, which I think is good. I've only finished book 1 so far, it didn't help that we misplaced it for a while.
I've never read the Harry Potter books. I figured I'd get to it when Sophia started reading them. (Now I'm trying to catch up, as I don't spend as much time reading as Sophia does.) So I don't know what the rest of the series is like, except that the later books are supposed to be for bigger kids, although I have heard of 6 year olds reading the entire series. I spoke to some other parents, asking "I know these ramp up a lot in maturity-- should I hold off on giving them to Sophia?" I was told, oh yeah, the books start getting seriously scary from book 4 onwards; besides, in later books it's more work to keep track of the plot arc well enough to make sense of it.
On a day off, Mom called with "helpful" suggestions for how we could spend our time, and said "how about if you go to the bookstore and buy the rest of the Harry Potter books?"-- I had to explain no, they really get scary, we are going to put that off, and Sophia will understand because she doesn't like to get too scared-- but Sophia was not deterred and was bouncing up and down at this idea. "Bookstore! Bookstore!" So we went to Barnes and Noble and I bought JUST BOOK THREE DAMNIT, and spent entirely too much money on other silly stuff.
I think Sophia is done with a first reading of book 3, and she is lobbying to get book 4 now of course. She's re-reading the books she has, which I think is good. I've only finished book 1 so far, it didn't help that we misplaced it for a while.
