Harry Potter books

[dss62467]

My daughter is turning 7 this month and I'm trying to think of things to tell family members to get her as gifts. I thought maybe we could start her on the Harry Potter books. She is an "especially strong reader" (that was on her report card). I think she's at least one grade level higher in her reading than the average 7 year old.

Still, is that too advanced? I guess we could read them together.

Moms?????

 

[allwildgirl]

Sophie started reading them when she was 6 (we read some together and she read some on her own) but she's several grades ahead in reading (she reads at a grade 10 level right now and she's in grade 4). I think that if you start Teri now and read them with her, then you could help explain things she doesn't get. Even though they're "kid's" books, the further along you go in the series, the more adult they become. And they're quite dark.

That being said, they are wonderful books.

 

[dss62467]

I'm not at all concerned about her not understanding them. She's a smart cookie. I'm just thinking she might get overwhelmed with them being "chapter" books.

Ah well, I want to read them myself...so it could be fun to read them together. She's always asking me to read MY books to her. Always fun when I get to someone getting killed, or sex or profanity. She always knows when I'm skipping parts.

 

[cab0899]

DS and I read (Well, I read and he listened)the first three books while he was in Kindergarten. We have read all the books together and he insists that he wants me to read the new book (out in July) out loud to him even though he's 10 and an extremely strong reader. He plow through books like crazy but likes that fact that we read these ones together. It's our special time. I never thought I would get hooked on the HP books but the last one we read the whole thing the first weekend it was out. I've read all 6 books out loud and 2 of them twice.

DD on the other hand is in Grade One and we have never made it through a chapter book yet even much simpler ones. She just doesn't have the concentration or interest like ds did.

The books do get very disturbing with some deaths occurring later in the series so might be good to read them together to gauge how she is doing.

 

[allwildgirl]

Yes, I agree about the reading the later ones in particular together. And some of them are quite hefty.

Sophie and I cried our eyes out at the end of Half-Blood Prince.

 

[materialsgirl]

>Sophie and I cried our eyes out at the end of Half-Blood
>Prince.
>

I did too! Sooooo sad!