Jul 10 2007
This week’s Tuesday Haiku and Harry Potter
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The topic for this week’s Denver Post haiku contest is BASEBALL.
The deadline is midnight Thursday (Denver time). Send your one stanza (5-7-5) haiku to lifestyle@denverpost.com or go online at www.denverpost.com/haiku to enter. (You can also read everyone else’s entries there.) As usual, the weekly winner will win a $25 gift certificate to the Tattered Cover bookstore. Good luck!
Speaking of the Denver Post, check out their thought provoking article, "The end is in sight for Harry Potter - The final Harry Potter book may spell doom for key characters, which has some parents squeamish"
With death looming near someone as important to kids as Harry…many Potter fans worry a fictional demise might leave scars on real children.
Not to worry, say literature experts and careful parents. Beloved characters have been dying in books and movies revered by children since Charles Dickens’ Little Nell, E.B. White’s Charlotte the spider, Bambi’s mom and "Sesame Street’s" Mr. Hooper. An important death written with care and consideration not only offers emotional growth to the young reader but makes for a great plot they’ll never forget.
No matter what the subject - racism, death, drugs, sexuality - books provide a great opportunity to have a family dialog about hard-to-approach matters. If your kids are reading Harry Potter, it’s a great time to discuss death, the imminent demise of elderly or sick relatives and friends, and your beliefs about spirituality and the hereafter.
Take advantage of the situation and talk with your kids!
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