Re: Another voice of wisdom!

["Earl J. Moniz" <earlj@moniz.org>]

Barbara,

***5. Lesson for us - what is it about the series, or its promotion, or
whatever that has been so
successful that we can take away and use in our classrooms or
libraries?***

I think that one of the main attractions of the book is its universal
appeal to our imagination.
How many of us remember playing in the dirt as small children and
wishing that perhaps we could make ourselves smaller and walk into an
ant hill as a giant of all we survey . . . or make ourselves bigger and
imagine wading through a lake or bay nearby?
The attraction for educators seems to be that even wizards and witches
need to go to school - there isn't anything magical about learning,
everyone has to work hard at knowing more than they do at any point in
their lives and learning to use their skills to a sound purpose.
The primary evidence I can cite about how magical the ability to read
is - is the similarity fans have with Harry when he was drawn into the
Tom Riddle diary in the second book . . . readers become oblivious to
almost everything around them and become so engrossed in the book, it is
as if they have transported themselves to another place and time!  I
have always tried to convince my patrons that a good book is truly the
only type of time machine ... it can take us to places we have never
been and gives us experiences we might never otherwise have known . . .

Aloha y'all   ...   Earl J.
"Just an old Maui boy with a poor sense of direction ...
Fayetteville, NC ... working his way back home; one state at a time!"
www.moniz.org / earlj@moniz.org
Lost Librarian . . . <sigh>

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