While I totally agree that there is a lot of hype with the Harry Potter books isn't
it a refreshing change to see it over a book rather than say, a movie? A video
game? Or some other nonsensical pop culture phenomenom. If this is what it takes
to get kids reading, or to pull them away from the computer/video game etc. for
just a few more minutes, I am all for it.
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Esther Keller
Librarian
I.S. 278 Marine Park
1925 Stuart Street
Brooklyn, NY 11229
Ph. 718.375.3523
Ph. 718.645.6201 (direct to library)
Fx. 718.998.7324
famous99@verizon.net or elewens@schools.nyc.gov
***opinions are my own and not necessarily those of my employer***
"If libraries had been cool enough to carry graphic novels when I was a kid, I
never would have had to turn to petty crime to afford my expensive comics habit."
-Comic book writer Brian K. Vaughan, on hearing that Digests 4-6 of his Runaways
series had been chosen for YALSA's 2007 Great Graphic Novels for Teens, Comic Book
Resources news, Jan. 31.
----- Original Message -----
From: Sam DiMartino
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 12:51 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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