Wired has a Story on the Harry Hype, but they also cover how good Harry has been for Libraries. More than 350,000 people preordered book 4, there\’s the upcoming Hollywood blockbuster and Harry video games, official websites in both the U.S. and in Britain, and there are scads of others sites, both for and against.
\”When people felt kids were only involved with video games, it\’s heartening to see a book so well received,\” said Neal Coonerty, president of the American Booksellers Association, a trade group for independent bookstores.
Wired has a Story on the Harry Hype, but they also cover how good Harry has been for Libraries. More than 350,000 people preordered book 4, there\’s the upcoming Hollywood blockbuster and Harry video games, official websites in both the U.S. and in Britain, and there are scads of others sites, both for and against.
\”When people felt kids were only involved with video games, it\’s heartening to see a book so well received,\” said Neal Coonerty, president of the American Booksellers Association, a trade group for independent bookstores.
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Virginia Walter, president of the Association of Library Services to Children, a division of the American Library Association, said that many librarians have effectively capitalized on the Harry hype, sponsoring \”read-alikes\” of books similar to the Potter fantasies, and posting recommendations on the Internet.
\”At this point they seem to be drawn to the other fantasies,\” Walter said. \”What J.K. Rowling has done is taken the wonderful tradition of fantasy and the school story. The survivor tales, the action tales would also be sold to kids who liked Harry Potter.\”
Ga Lombard, the children\’s book buyer at Bookshop Santa Cruz in Santa Cruz, California, has been touting Eva Ibbotson\’s The Secret of Platform 13 and Howl\’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones, both of which show up on a number of recommendation lists for kids who have read Harry ad nauseum.
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