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Originally Posted by Jellby
Seriously, I can't imagine an 8-year-old child reading a book without pictures and more than 50 pages today  |
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Originally Posted by HarryT
My nephew read the 800+ pages of "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" when he was 7 years old and was entranced by it.
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J K Rowling got the criticism that books for kids needed to be shorter, but the Harry Potter books revolutionized publishing for kids. Tamora Pierce, in her preface to
Trickster's Choice commented that this story would be printed in two books rather than her previous quartets because the success of the Harry Potter books finally showed publishers that young readers will read big books.