Thread: economical ereader for a kid?
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Old 04-16-2010, 06:26 PM   #71
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Originally Posted by Logseman View Post
Nevertheless, I consider that the Harry Potter books are not suited for 8 year olds. The saga grows darker and edgier in every tome, and it would be pointless to allow the kid to read the first one, and then see that the fifth of the sixth are deemed unsuitable for the kid.
Actually, one of the features of the Harry Potter series is that the books *are* by design age-appropriate... to Harry's Age. The idea is for kids to read them one per year (which is why each book except the last covers one school year) starting at age 10. Which is why the prose and the subject matter gets progressively more mature and darker.

An ambitious undertaking for any author to attempt to say nothing of a previously-unpublished writer. It'll be interestingg where her follow-ups go; back to the young reader market or straight adult.
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