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- It's been 20 years since readers in the U.S. were first introduced to the wizarding world, and more than 500 million copies of the books have been sold worldwide. The series is still intensely personal for the boys and girls who have read, and still read the books. It's also had a deep impact on what children read.
www.npr.org/2018/10/28/661096501/inside-the-ever-expanding-wizarding-world-harry-potter-at-20Inside The Ever-Expanding Wizarding World: Harry Potter At 20
Jun 26, 2017 · Here are just two of the ways Harry Potter changed publishing, and how those changes affected the rest of pop culture: 1) The books made it possible to publish long works aimed...
- The Outsiders Reinvented Young Adult Fiction. Harry Potter Made It Inescapable
On June 26, 1997, in the UK, Bloomsbury published a new...
- Fantastic Beasts
The Obscurus is new to the Harry Potter universe, and the...
- The Outsiders Reinvented Young Adult Fiction. Harry Potter Made It Inescapable
- The series taught adults that, when it comes to literature, age ain’t nothing but a number. Whether you started reading the series at an age-appropriate 12 only to wait in line at 22 for the joy of the final installment or, like my dad, you decided to indulge your overzealous daughter by reading the copy she hid in your carry-on bag on a work trip and fell in love, the Harry Potter series took adults reading books written for kids and teenagers from being something mildly embarrassing to being an everyday occurrence.
- It taught publishers that, as long as the books are GOOD, kids will read them, no matter how long they are, or how many you write. Before “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,’’ a 700-page children’s book was unheard of.
- That led to an EXPLOSION of popularity for children’s and young adult literature, especially series. Did you know that the Harry Potter series is the reason that The New York Times Bestseller List has a separate list for children’s books?
- It made book culture into pop culture. Find someone who was working at one of Harvard Square’s bookstores in July 2007 and ask them about the Harry Potter Party thrown in the square to celebrate the release of the final book in the series.
- Kate Tremblay
- They’ve reached the point in popularity that they’ve become classics that you have to read in order to understand parts of today’s society. One of the easiest ways you can know about someone’s values is to ask their Hogwarts house or sometimes you can hear people talking about muggles and using other "Harry Potter" words.
- It’s become essentially a rite of passage into the adult world. If you haven’t read "Harry Potter," then you’re not quite a full adult yet.
- It’s probably the book series that has gotten the most kids hooked on reading. Most kids say they don’t like reading because they have only read the books in school, which are often not as interesting as many other books.
- It follows themes such as racism and prejudice in ways that make it easier for people to hear. It’s much easier to hear about fictional muggle-born witches and wizards being persecuted in "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" than it is to hear about real African American teenagers getting shot in the street.
Jun 26, 2017 · Harry Potter really is the franchise that never dies; it's popularity never wanes, and one little boy with a lightning shaped scar, changed Hollywood entirely. First of all, the cinematic success of Harry Potter showed Hollywood that its source material didn't need to be aimed specifically at adults.
Jun 26, 2017 · “Why Everyone Should Read Harry Potter” (Bret Stetka, Scientific American, September 2014) Stetka writes about a study that shows how immersion into Harry Potter’s world can increase readers’ empathy.
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Sep 9, 2014 · Why Everyone Should Read Harry Potter. Tales of the young wizard instill empathy, a study finds. By Bret Stetka. Mind & Brain. As the familiar story goes, not long ago there was an orphan who...
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Jun 26, 2017 · The first Harry Potter book may have been released 20 years ago, but the fandom is still going strong — with conventions, theme parks, an international sporting competition and even a music genre — wizard rock or "wrock".
