Hmmm...I knew this would come out sooner or later...<BR>From what I read and unserstood from somewhere, JK Rowling intended HP to be for adults---she never reads them to her daughter, and does not recommend them to be read to 7 year olds.<BR>In relation to Airetalathwen's mention of advanced placement literature, or that thing about Rowling's style, I think that's why HP is very popular (did i make sense there? lost my point in the way i wanted it to come out) JKR's style is very very descriptive---one of the main reasons why people atually 'saw' the places in film as they have 'read' them.<P>However, I don't agree with Rosa Underhill...(Sorry, girl ) I practically grew up with Alice and Wonderland. I enjoyed Hallmark's version of it.<BR>I was in my Children's Literature class a few days ago and I learned that AIW is a philosophical discourse on growing and finding one's identity. Like when the caterpillkar asks Alice "Who are you?" and Alice answers "I hardly know myself, you see," and the caterpillr eventually answers" "I don't see." It's got something to do with a philosopher's premises on identity---I just forgot his name.<P>And, just to point out something...<BR>children's literature in the time of AIW, or anything by Beatrix Potter, had a vague theme to concetrate on---most of the writers then just wrote for pleasure (Lewis Carroll wrote for his own pleasure and never mentioined to 'educate' the real Alice, and Beatrix Potter was never really fond of children...just to say that we can;t really say what is children's lit and what is not.<P>phew. that was long...<BR>sorry for the loooooong issues. I don;t wanna leave my brain stagnant from all I know.<BR>God bless!
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