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Title: The Door in the Forest Author: Roderick Townley Genre: Middle-grade Fiction (Children’s fantasy novels) Age Category: 8 years + Children’s Fantasy Novel: The Door in the Forest Daniel Crowley cannot tell a lie. For most of his life, this inability has been a fairly manageable annoyance. Now, as soldiers move into the small town [...]
What makes for good children’s books? In this series on how to choose children’s books, I have suggested that choice-worthy children’s books have both subjective appeal, and developmental value. In other words, good kids’ books are appealing to a child, and help her grow. One characteristic that can affect the developmental value of a kids’ [...]
Title: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) Author: J.K. Rowling Genre: Young Adult Fiction Age Category: 14 to 19 years + I plan to review the seventh and last of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books—Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7)—before the release of the seventh Harry Potter movie in November, 2010. [...]
Title: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5) Author: J.K. Rowling Age Category: 12 to 16 years + Genre: Young Adult Fiction Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: Book Review and Summary Today I present a Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix book review and summary. This fifth [...]
This is the third and final article in a series about J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter novels. To read from the beginning, click here for the first article, “The Harry Potter Controversy”. In this third installment of the series, I try to answer some objections that might arise in relation to the place of divination in [...]
This article is the second in a series about J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter novels. To read from the beginning, click here for the first article, “The Harry Potter Controversy”. In this second installment of the series, I make the positive case for Christian allegory in Harry Potter. Allegory in Harry Potter In making a case [...]
I have a confession to make: I’m a Harry Potter fanatic. Prior to last summer I had been enjoying each of the Harry Potter movies as they were released, but I had yet not read any of J.K. Rowling’s children’s books. However, last summer, right before my family and I went on an extended road [...]
