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From: Cathy Sullivan Seblonka <cathys>
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 13:23:32 -0400 (EDT)
My family, ranging from 78 year old parents to a 7 year old great niece, my sister and nieces and a nephew from 14 to 30, traveled to Howell, MI for their HP celebration. The whole downtown dresses as Hogwarts, Diagon Alley, and Hogsmead. We bought the book at midnight and started reading it aloud in the car on the drive home. My oldest niece finished it at 7:30 Sat. morning, the next niece read it while also watching her friend race in the county fair on Sat., the youngest finished it in the wee hours of Sunday morning....
All the library's HP books, audio-books, and CDs of all 6 titles are checked out. The shelves are bare. Young, teen and adult are reading and listening. We ask, "Did you finish it?" and everyone knows what you're asking. Then there's much passionate discussion about the ending and guessing as to what will follow in HP7.
Our teen advisory board is busily and excitedly preparing for the HP party later this month for middle school and high school age people only. Now the younger kids want a HP party.
So much fun and enthusiasm! I am glad to be alive for these books.
Cathy
P.S. The best HP costumes were infant twins, each carried by a parent, feet in clay flower pots, parsley and other green matter in their hair--potted mandrakes! Hahaha
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 13:23:32 -0400 (EDT)
My family, ranging from 78 year old parents to a 7 year old great niece, my sister and nieces and a nephew from 14 to 30, traveled to Howell, MI for their HP celebration. The whole downtown dresses as Hogwarts, Diagon Alley, and Hogsmead. We bought the book at midnight and started reading it aloud in the car on the drive home. My oldest niece finished it at 7:30 Sat. morning, the next niece read it while also watching her friend race in the county fair on Sat., the youngest finished it in the wee hours of Sunday morning....
All the library's HP books, audio-books, and CDs of all 6 titles are checked out. The shelves are bare. Young, teen and adult are reading and listening. We ask, "Did you finish it?" and everyone knows what you're asking. Then there's much passionate discussion about the ending and guessing as to what will follow in HP7.
Our teen advisory board is busily and excitedly preparing for the HP party later this month for middle school and high school age people only. Now the younger kids want a HP party.
So much fun and enthusiasm! I am glad to be alive for these books.
Cathy
P.S. The best HP costumes were infant twins, each carried by a parent, feet in clay flower pots, parsley and other green matter in their hair--potted mandrakes! Hahaha
-- Cathy Sullivan Seblonka Youth Services Librarian Peter White Public Library 217 N. Front St. Marquette, MI 49855 (906) 228?10 fax (906) 22683 e-mail: cathys at uproc.lib.mi.usReceived on Thu 04 Aug 2005 12:23:32 PM CDT
