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Age appropriateness..., What do you think the target age should be?
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Today, I was at a bookstore. Attached to the price tag for Beedle was a comment tag: "Juvenile fiction, age appropriate for 6-12 year olds."

I'll agree for some. There's at least one that is certainly upper teen by my thought.

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- JohannMdlAmerica   Age appropriateness...   Dec 7 2008, 03:21 PM
- - Fer_keeper   I'd say that if the library/bookstore thinks t...   Dec 7 2008, 03:38 PM
- - JaneMarple9   I would say between 8 and 12 age group but they...   Dec 7 2008, 04:38 PM
- - MichaelCorner   It all comes down to parents. If a child is not re...   Dec 7 2008, 04:57 PM
|- - WaggaWaggaWerewolf   QUOTE(MichaelCorner @ Dec 8 2008, 08:57 A...   Dec 8 2008, 05:22 AM
- - ~Dumbledore's~Ghost¿~   They are, in my opinion, to be read by/to anyone w...   Dec 8 2008, 09:01 AM
- - JohannMdlAmerica   I was struck first that the bookstore would even p...   Dec 8 2008, 06:39 PM
|- - Blibbering Humdinger   QUOTE(JohannMdlAmerica @ Dec 8 2008, 05:3...   Jan 1 2009, 02:43 PM
- - Sirius_Craic   But look at Harry Potter. The whole saga begins wi...   Dec 8 2008, 08:04 PM
|- - JohannMdlAmerica   QUOTE(Sirius_Craic @ Dec 8 2008, 07:04 PM...   Dec 8 2008, 10:46 PM
||- - ShanksForte   QUOTE(JohannMdlAmerica @ Dec 8 2008, 07:4...   Dec 8 2008, 11:37 PM
|- - roonwit   QUOTE(Sirius_Craic @ Dec 9 2008, 01:04 AM...   Dec 9 2008, 04:17 AM
- - Sirius_Craic   QUOTE(JohannMdlAmerica @ Dec 8 2008, 10:4...   Dec 9 2008, 05:33 AM
- - DorisTLC   Just from the boring readability standpoint, the l...   Dec 9 2008, 07:27 AM
- - JohannMdlAmerica   Doris, Thank you for a comprehensive answer I u...   Dec 9 2008, 11:11 AM
- - priestess101   While my 11 year old daughter's favourite was ...   Dec 9 2008, 06:47 PM
- - Fer_keeper   QUOTE(priestess101 @ Dec 9 2008, 08:47 PM...   Dec 9 2008, 07:44 PM
- - ChelseyFitz   I am not sure I want my 7 year old to read the War...   Dec 10 2008, 11:46 AM
- - SabrinaDrolet14   I am sure that any child that has read the harry P...   Jan 1 2009, 01:18 AM
- - vaudree   QUOTEOn the other hand, if you tell a child not to...   Jan 1 2009, 01:45 PM
- - chloe squibbulus   My first thought is that the Grimm Fairy Tales hav...   Jan 2 2009, 03:19 PM
- - Miss Padfoot   QUOTE(Fer_keeper @ Dec 7 2008, 09:38 PM) ...   Jan 5 2009, 06:09 PM
- - Master Yoda   Well =] I think that the these stories should be a...   Jan 10 2009, 10:10 PM
- - NicoleC76   The Tales of Beedle the Bard is one of those books...   Jan 29 2009, 02:26 AM
- - AsYouWish   Someone grab the butterbeer and let's take thi...   Feb 26 2009, 09:49 AM
- - TheGoldenSeeker   I think if a kid wants to read it, they should be ...   Feb 26 2009, 10:17 PM
- - sTiTcH   the books can go ahead and be all ages. those too ...   Mar 14 2009, 08:29 AM
- - Azkaban's_Angel   QUOTE(JaneMarple9 @ Dec 7 2008, 10:38 PM)...   Apr 11 2009, 03:48 PM
- - pottergirl66   Well, I was eight when I started reading HP, and I...   Apr 13 2009, 05:17 PM
- - iwishiwasluna   I think the books are great for any age. By the ti...   Apr 28 2009, 08:15 AM
- - aricarrot   Any age at all!! It's a universal stor...   May 12 2009, 09:45 PM
- - Silvergale   There's no specific age put on the Harry Potte...   May 16 2009, 12:08 PM
- - E M   Well, I think it depends more how imaginative the ...   May 25 2009, 12:32 PM
- - Immortal Phoenix   I think eight upwards is suitable. Some individual...   May 31 2009, 11:18 AM
- - Emms   It's kind of hard for me to judge because I th...   Jun 14 2009, 10:29 PM
- - Aliyah95   Well, books 5-7 should be YA (young adult), but th...   Jun 19 2009, 03:58 PM
- - tonksgirl   this thread quite interests me, all the posts on h...   Jun 19 2009, 07:57 PM
- - AreYouAFirstYearToo?   Firstly, I don't think that censoring the ages...   Jun 19 2009, 08:28 PM
- - lupinwandcaster   I think the Harry Potter books get more mature you...   Jun 21 2009, 08:51 PM

 

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