By Gina Joseph over at The MacombDaily;

“Harry Potter” did more than make its author as rich as the Queen of England. The series of seven novels chronicling the adventures of the boy wizard, together with Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, his eager companions at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, got the attention of a generation. And, in one swoop, made books cool for kids again.

“I think reading has always been cool,” said Arthur Levine, editor of all seven books and founder of Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic, which brought Potter to America. “But I do think ‘Harry Potter’ re-introduced the idea of a book as being something that attracts the attention of the mass media. It made books both a playground/lunchroom subject, as well as a subject that could be shared by multiple generations … and it proved that boys do, in fact, read if given the right book.”

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Although I haven’t read the Harry Potter series, I do remember being in school and every time we would go to the book fair, kids where picking Harry Potter up. I love the movies.

Do you think Harry Potter got kids back into reading? Have you read Harry Potter?