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The Dadmag Guide To Children's Books
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Harry Potter (Series)
(Ages 6 and up)
The New Yorker sees J.K.Rowling as vying with Milton. My ten-year-old nephew makes a less hubristic claim for the Harry Potter books: "They're a great read-aloud." Don't be put off by the media overkill. The books offer: a boatload of wide-ranging characters; a wizard world parallel to this one, imagined in great detail; surface mystery plots and a continuing underlying plot in which Hitlerian forces threaten that likeable world. Kids read these books, and will listen to them being read, again and again. Rowling's up to four of seven projected volumes, one for each year of Harry's schooling in wizardry.
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