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Article: SO WHAT'S ALL THIS ABOUT HARRY POTTER?(Harry Potter books, children's literature)
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- Quadrant
- Article date:
- December 1, 2000
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THOSE OF US who have not been sojourning on Mars have been hearing a lot about the Harry Potter phenomenon. It seems that a boy wizard going to a most unusual boarding school called Hogwarts has taken the world by storm. But what exactly is the phenomenon about? Are the Harry Potter books as good as they are made out to be? And what does it mean for children's literature, for children's reading, perhaps even for future cultural trends?
First of all, a brief word of explanation for those Martian visitors and indeed for anyone else who has done nothing other than gaze wide-eyed at the bestseller lists. Harry Potter, boy wizard who fights an eternal battle against ...