Den neuen Harry Potter hab ich noch nicht gelesen, werd ihn mir aber bald bestellen. Es würde mich übrigens freuen, wenn jemand eine Leseempfehlung im entsprechenden Thread schreiben könnte.
Ich finde es ganz interessant, wie Tolkien, der ja eines der besten und beliebtesten Kinderbücher, den Kleinen Hobbit, geschrieben hat, darüber dachte. Er bereute nachher den teilweise etwas kindischen Ton des Kleinen Hobbits. Ich erlaube mir mal, ihn zu zitieren:
"The first question, it seems to me, to asks in any discussion of this kind is: "What are 'Children'? Do you limit your enquiry, as may be supposed, to (North) European children? Then in what ages between the cradle and the end of legal infancy? To what grades of intelligence? Or literary talent and perceptiveness? Some intelligent children may have little of this. Children's tastes and talents differ as widely as those of adults, as soon as they are old enough to be differentiated clearly, and therefore to be the target of any thing that can bear the name of literature. It would be useless to offer to many children of 14 or even of 12 the trash that is good enoguh for many respectable adults of twice or three times the age, but less gifts natural."
"But even in Age I think we only are really moved by what is at least in some point or aspect above us, above our measure, at any rate before we have read it and 'taken it in'. Therefore do not write down to Children or to anybody. Not even in language. Though it would be a good thing if that great reverence which is due to children took the form of eschewing the tired and flabby cliches of adult life. But an honest word is an honest word, an its acquaintance can only be made by meeting it in a right context. A good vocabulary is not acquired by reading books written according to some notion of the vocabulary of one's age-group. It comes from reading books above one." (Letters: 298)
Das geht natürlich sehr in die Richtung von dem, was Thod sagt (wen überrascht's?

).
Ich selbst kann von mir sagen, dass ich vielleicht meine liebsten Kinderbücher (das sind wohl 'das fliegende Klassenzimmer', 'der Kleine Hobbit' und mittlerweile 'Harry Potter') nicht mehr ganz so mag, wie früher, aber sie immer noch lesen würde, wenn ich sie nicht schon halb auswendig kennte

. Nunja, aber ich bin ja vom Alter auch noch halb Kind.
Padreic