The fact that HP was well-written just reinforced its manner of character development & key plot points. Everything about those books acknowledged children's suffering, their value, their capacity to do real things. Children were and are starving for it.https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1144558734678614016 …
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I read the first one but don't remember much, tbh... I think maybe it leaned too heavily on themes re: brokenness. HP created an entirely separate world for its children to retreat to, one where even the physical rules eliminated many of their disadvantages relative to adults
Oh yeah, I don’t think kids were especially adept in HDM (the way they were in the HP universe). Still, I have the feeling that Pullman somehow rendered their experiences authentically — esp. the experience of being disoriented by the adult world and not knowing who to follow.
