Suggestion: start with the third book. It's good, and catches you up on major plot points.
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I'm starting to wonder if the one book I read wasn't the first. I don't remember this first chapter at all.
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I remember it well because
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Have you tried Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality? http://hpmor.com
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maybe try hpmor? http://hpmor.com
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are you using the recent illustrated edition? These made a big difference for my 6 year old.
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It's a well-known phenomenon: you buy them a coveted gift, confident of its reception, only to find they prefer to play with the box.
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«Le cœur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point», I suppose, about sums it up. Better just to shrug and chuckle and go along.
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Maybe you should try 'Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality' instead.
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my challenge is age-appropriateness. my 8y old would devour them all in a month. but later books get darker.https://www.commonsensemedia.org/blog/harry-potter-age-by-age-guide …
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I'm working on this very issue...
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And then the first two books exist as prequels for them in a few years!
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prepare yourself for the "what's a VCR?" question in (I think) chapter 3.
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you have to set the scene; I made sure I could do several of the voices really well, which hooked the littles on the entertainment
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My 6yr old is reading it on his own, worry too young for the darker books ahead.
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read each character w/diff voices, they will love that; once my kids got bored w/me, I got the audio books...excellent voice actor :)
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your kids actually seem like they'd like sci fi more than fantasy, one of my faves as a kid was chitty chitty bang bang, read it?
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@paulg Indeed! Happily just past that bit with kid 2. On 1st read, hard for 5yo to see what everyone raves about!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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exposition turns out to be boring. I think that's why sequels do so well
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