From: James Elliott <j_c_elliott>
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 16:15:07 -0400

Potter

WE went to the pre-release party at two locations: Borders and Books-A-Million. The one at Borders was poorly attended and not very well organized. Almost 15 minutes past the ?start time? nothing had been started
? no activites, no ?sorting?, nothing. However, the staff were in great costumes. So we left for BAM. As did a lot of others.

BAM was great. The staff had set up a ?Sorting Hat? at the front entrance, you stood under the hat, closed your eyes and picked out a ?house? from a cauldron. Then you went to the house area. Staff had activities planned that rotated from house to house, about ? hour increments. So Gryffindor had wand making at 9:00, Hufflepuff at 9:30, Ravenclaw at 10:00, Slyteren at 10:30, and so on. Very well organized, something going on all over the store.

There were kids and adults of all ages, and they were all participating. (I won third place in the Hufflepuff Costume contest as Sirius Black).

My daughter is 17, and she insisted on reading the book first, my son is 10 and he is not a good reader, but he is working his way through it and won?t let us talk about it when he is in the room. We bought two copies so there wouldn?t be a big fight over the reading.

At the library, we have several copies cataloged and the hold list is growing for both book and CD.

So, in short, I haven?t noticed any diminishing of interest in older children, teens or adults.


James Elliott Gadsden County Public Library System 341 E. Jefferson Street Quincy, FL. 32351%31

(850) 627q06

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? Groucho MARX
Received on Thu 04 Aug 2005 03:15:07 PM CDT