Re: [LM_NET] Had enough of Harry Potter?

[Dawn Sardes <yayagoddess@SBCGLOBAL.NET>]

>I wonder how many of  those children standing in line will actually read the book 
>and not
 >just have it in their collection as a kind of status symbol?
   

  If this is true, Sam, then why did all 55 copies at my public library fly out of 
there within ten minutes of opening last Saturday morning?
   
  Most of these people coming in were parents with some VERY excited children.
   
  They can't be keeping them in any collection as a status symbol--they are 
borrowed.  We went to a Golden Corral Buffet restaurant in Macedonia, OH this past 
Friday afternoon and there was a church group of about a dozen young 
African-American boys with their pastor and a few other young men.  As they stood 
in line to pay, about four of the kids had book 7 open and reading, with the others 
clustered around, reading over the shoulders of the boys with the books. Even the 
adults with them were trying to read.  While they were eating, the men had to keep 
telling the boys to put the books away so they didn't get dirty.
   
  They were reading on their laps while eating.  I nearly cried to hear the moans 
and groans as they had to put them into their backpacks and under their seats.
   
  If this is manipulation, it is the very best kind.  I held a Harry Potter Trivia 
competition and 35 people showed up.  This HP phenomenon was the very best thing 
that could have happened to kids and to the state of pleasure reading in our 
society.  Too bad it probably will not happen again for another hundred years.


Dawn Sardes
Teen Services Librarian
Euclid Public Library
Euclid, OH
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