What age for dc to enjoy harry potter?

[Meeplebeen]

My boy twins are somewhat reluctant readers, although they can read, i think they need to get their teeth into a series. I think they'd like Harry Potter if they gave it a try. They're 7.5yo. Too young to enjoy it or properly understand it yet or about the right age?

For reluctant readers they are too young. Maybe leave it a few years. Or read it to them yourself but it gets dark after the first three books.

Why not try something a bit easier like The Secret Seven or Famous Five? Do they like comics? Subscribe to The Beano. Do they like factual books? Get them a book about a topic they are interested in, football, space, dinosaurs, nature. Do they like jokes? Get them a joke book.

I read the first 4 books to my son from age 5 ish although I changed the ending of the 4th (they both grabbed the cup and shared the winnings hooray!) and then he read from age 9-10 the rest.

Have you tried the 13 Storey Treehouse series? They're very engaging and an easy read.

The first couple of books are fine for younger kids but they get very big and the themes get much darker so that it would be good to let them be until they are older. What about the wonderful How to Train Your Dragon series which are far more age appropriate? There always seems to be a rush by people to get their children reading Harry Potter a bit too young for the later content.

This probably isn't the answer you want, but I don't know that I would have enjoyed HP at any age. I leafed through it as an adult, but it didn't seem worthwhile.

But with your description, the main thing that occurs to me it that I'd start with something shorter. To give reluctant readers a fat book with the threat of a whole series to follow as well might make it seem like a chore.

The philosophers stone is a great book for bedtime reading ie you reading it to them and if they love it they can pick up and read the rest