by Judy Blume 9. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson 10. Alice (series) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor ~~~The problem with is that it's not just a book.
Along with the book, you have to have the bookmark. And the journal. And the movie tickets.
And the costumes and the themed parties and the theme park, and before you know it, that little boy with the scar on his forehead is taking over your world! Somebody please make it stop! Genma Holmes, a parent who messaged us from Hermitage, Tenn.
, said she's had enough of the madness. She estimates that since the beginning of the craze, she's spent hundreds of dollars on Hogwarts birthday parties and other Potter paraphernalia. "It's just an enormous amount of merchandising," she said.
"You almost feel like you're a bad parent if you don't stand in line." Holmes and the other moms in her parent group banded together against the temptation to give in to the next new marketing ploy. Luckily for Holmes, her children are old enough to go to a midnight Potter party without her.
If they'd like to find the closest place to celebrate Rowling's next book, they can visit www.potterparties.com.
(Not that we're encouraging any such frivolity.)~~~The Potter craze dominated the top three slots on The New York Times best-seller list for nearly two years, upsetting other booksellers who couldn't compete. After the industry clamored to end the monopoly and provide more opportunity for new authors, the powers that be decided Harry wasn't grown up enough and at the Times created a category specifically for children's literature.
"Surely Scholastic and Harry Potter have had their moment in the sun," New York Times Book Review editor Charles McGrath told Salon.com in 2000. When the best-seller was forever (or finally) banished from the most coveted literary list, book snobs everywhere rejoiced.
"Rowling's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing," prominent literary critic and Yale professor Harold Bloom wrote in 2003. The Harry Potter series - which has been credited for inspiring a generation of readers - will not turn youngsters on to children's classics such as Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows or Lewis Carroll's Alice series, Bloom said. Potter fans are much more likely to become fans of lesser authors (his opinion) such as Stephen King, who Bloom claimed did not deserve a National Book Foundation award for "distinguished contribution.
" Bloom suggests Rowling's cliche-filled writing is dumbing down readers. by Judy Blume 9.
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