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tpryan
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Suggestions for additional reading for Harry Potter fan - about 100 lines.
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Dec 9 23:33 UTC 1999 |
Do you know someone turned onto to reading via the Harry Potter books?
Here are some others to try:
Suggestions for
Harry Potter fans:
Intermediate Readers (8-12 yrs)
The Book of Three
by Lloyd Alexander
House With a Clock In Its Walls
by John Bellairs
Into the Land of Unicorns
by Bruce Colville
The Boggart
by Susan Cooper
The Boggart and The Monster
by Susan Cooper
So You Want To Be A Wizard
by Diane Duane
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
by Alan Garner
Passager
by Jane Yolen
Wizards's Hall
by Jane Yolen
The Lost Years of Merlin
by T.A. Barron
The Secret of Platform 13
by Eva Ibbotson
Charmed Life
by Diana Wynne Jones
Dragon of the Lost Sea
by Laurence Yep
Young Adult Fiction (12 - 15 yrs)
The Night of Wishes
by Michael Ende
A Wizard of Earthsea
by Ursula LeGuin
The Hero and the Crown
by Robin McKinley
Sabriel
by Garth Nix
Sandry's Book
by Tamora Pierce
The Hobbit
by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Sword in the Stone
by T.H. White
Dealing with Dragons
by Patricia Wrede
Suggestions for
Harry Potter fans:
Intermediate Readers (8-12 yrs)
The Book of Three
by Lloyd Alexander
House With a Clock In Its Walls
by John Bellairs
Into the Land of Unicorns
by Bruce Colville
The Boggart
by Susan Cooper
The Boggart and The Monster
by Susan Cooper
So You Want To Be A Wizard
by Diane Duane
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
by Alan Garner
Passager
by Jane Yolen
Wizards's Hall
by Jane Yolen
The Lost Years of Merlin
by T.A. Barron
The Secret of Platform 13
by Eva Ibbotson
Charmed Life
by Diana Wynne Jones
Dragon of the Lost Sea
by Laurence Yep
Young Adult Fiction (12 - 15 yrs)
The Night of Wishes
by Michael Ende
A Wizard of Earthsea
by Ursula LeGuin
The Hero and the Crown
by Robin McKinley
Sabriel
by Garth Nix
Sandry's Book
by Tamora Pierce
The Hobbit
by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Sword in the Stone
by T.H. White
Dealing with Dragons
by Patricia Wrede
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mcnally
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response 1 of 10:
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Dec 10 02:01 UTC 1999 |
Also by Susan Cooper, and recommended (at least by me) are her
"the Dark is Rising" series, which consists of:
Under Sea, Under Stone
The Dark is Rising
Greenwitch
The Grey King
Silver on the Tree
Oddly, the first and third books always seemed to me to be considerably
more juvenile than the rest of the series -- I'd place them in the younger
readers category and put the others more in the 10- to 12-year-old range.
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dbratman
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response 2 of 10:
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Dec 15 22:08 UTC 1999 |
Unless they're already omniverous fantasy readers, I suspect most Harry
Potter fans wouldn't want something else, but just more Harry Potter
(and to re-read the ones they already have).
But that said, I definitely want to second one name on the list: of all
previous authors, the one who has written books most like Rowling's is
Diana Wynne Jones, and if I wanted to buy some other novels for a Harry
fan, I'd get a set of DWJ's Christopher Chant books.
Susan Cooper, otoh, I think would strike a Harry fan as tedious and
anemic.
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mcnally
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response 3 of 10:
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Dec 15 22:24 UTC 1999 |
Could be. Kids are pretty flexible, though, and not as set in
their ways as adults are..
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jep
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response 4 of 10:
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Dec 16 02:45 UTC 1999 |
I'm reading the 1st Harry Potter book to my 8 year old right now. It
seems like a pretty good book. I'm thinking he might well enjoy T. H.
White's "The Sword and the Stone" next if we get through the 3 Harry
Potter books.
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eeyore
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response 5 of 10:
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Dec 23 11:49 UTC 1999 |
Also excellent reading for any age: Anything by Brian Jacques, especially
Mossflower. No, it's really not like the Potter books, but it does appeal
to the same bent. :)
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gelinas
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response 6 of 10:
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Dec 24 04:15 UTC 1999 |
But for me, Jacques got old fast. My ten-year old son went a lot further
down that path than I could.
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eeyore
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response 7 of 10:
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Dec 24 08:32 UTC 1999 |
The first couple were wonderful. Mossflower should be required reading for
the younger set. And yes, they do get a bit tedious after awhile, but they
still are wonderful. :)
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dbratman
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response 8 of 10:
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Jan 3 19:04 UTC 2000 |
mcnally #3: As a child I was extremely rigid and set in my ways, much
more so than I am now (now I'm not rigid, just tired) and I find most
children are that way. Think of how a kid will demand to hear the SAME
bedtime story told in the EXACT SAME way. Substitutes don't cut it.
jep #4: Good idea. "The Sword in the Stone" has a lot in common with
Harry Potter, particularly the use of humor and the type of moralizing.
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mcnally
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response 9 of 10:
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Jan 3 21:58 UTC 2000 |
In my (limited) experience, kids are absolutely committed to certain
tastes and habits (almost to the point of fixation) but significantly
more welcoming towards new ideas and experiences in other areas.
When you try and run directly contrary to one of a child's strongly-held
tastes you're going to get a tantrum (at best) and risk permanently
prejudicing the child against whatever you're pushing. But if you sneak
something new in while they're not actively on guard against it they're
generally pretty cool about it.
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dbratman
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response 10 of 10:
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Jan 19 23:50 UTC 2000 |
"actively on guard against it" meaning "any situation where they're used
to one thing". If the situation is rare and they don't do it often (but
it isn't something Significant, like a birthday party), or they're used
to a lot of different things, then maybe you can sneak in something new.
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