I'd be remiss as a [future] children's librarian...

if I didn't mention that today is the day where the most POPULAR book of all time is released. The LAST in the MOST POPULAR children's book series of all time.




I've been thinking about the Harry Potter phenomenon and realized that it must be much the same as STAR WARS was to us children of the '70s and '80s. I helped out at a Harry Potter event at our library last week and it was astonishing to see kids, ages 2-17, dressed up in Hogwarts garb.

Our copy arrived early this morning via UPS/Amazon [sorry independent bookstores, but they were offering it at HALF OFF...]. Brian is reading it while I finish up Book 6.

Truly, the end of an era...

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