To be surprised DSs teacher claims Harry Potter are her favourite books?

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She teaches English and I would surely have expected a little more sophistication from someone with an English degree?

There's a nasty assumption in some quarters that writing for children (or indeed anything aimed at children) is essentially 'lesser'. Remember Martin Amis's comments a while back equating being a children's author with brain damage?

And it's such a limited viewpoint, because children can be incisively critical, added to which a love of reading fostered in childhood blossoms into a love of reading as an adult.

It's tedious and ignorant, this knee-jerk assertion that anything for children is inherently artistically deficient.

I am teacher with a degree that is 40% literature. My favourite book is The Paper Dolls, I think it is beautiful. My second favourite is Madame Bovary but the children I teach aren't interested in that! 

I just got a text from a friend who is an English Professor. She’s sitting down with a gin and HP6. And I introduced her to HP, it’s Dd’s Copy she’s reading.

Her favourite book is Crime and Punishment but she’s rattling through the HPs and enjoying them. Why does it matter?

My favourite books as a child were the naughtiest girl series Enid blyton
And narnia books.

Harry Potter for me is a perfect blend of the two written in a much more sophisticated way that appeals to all generations

I also loved watching them grow in the films plus "mostly" the casting was brilliant.

Yrbu

My sister has an English degree and masters and loves HP. Ditto my mum who ysed to be an English teacher ( actually she likes medieval religious verse more but try sharing that with a class of 11 year olds!)

They're a lot of people's favourite books....

My Uni has a Harry Potter Society mostly made up of fellow English students.

Get over your literary snobbery

I grew up reading the Harry Potter books and I would say they are my favourites. They were the first books to hook me in and developed my love of reading.

I'm a primary teacher who has a ceramic hp travel mug and a lunch box with the Hogwarts crest. The kids know, their parents know. I couldn't give a monkeys.