Re: [LM_NET] Had enough of Harry Potter?

[Wendy Stoll <wenreads@YAHOO.COM>]

<<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?>>

I'm sure there are a few out there.  But there are far more who have read the books 
with joy, and who have found a love of reading through them. I had one low reader 
plow his way through the first book, reporting to me on each chapter he managed; he 
had to check it out 4 times to finish it.  By the time he got to number 4, he was a 
fluent reader, and couldn't wait for number 5.  My Harry Potter books have been 
worn out, replaced, and replaced again.  This wouldn't happen if they were lying in 
backpacks for a week.

 
Wendy Stoll, Librarian
Smyrna Elementary School
Louisville, KY 
wenreads@yahoo.com



----- Original Message ----
From: Sam DiMartino <chicagosam1@YAHOO.COM>
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 12:51:04 PM
Subject: Had enough of Harry Potter?


Is anyone else here as happy as I am that this is the last of the Harry Potter 
books? To see children lined up at midnight to get their Potter book to me is 
sisturbing. Why? Because I think they are victims of the Potter Media Machine that 
has turned this book into a "must have" or you're not cool thing. I think that 
children are being manipulated and used by the marketing firm who markets this 
book.  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?
   
  Sam DiMartino
  Technology Coordinator
  Prosser HIgh School
    Chicago, IL 60639

  chicagosam1@yahoo.com
   

       
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