In J.K Rowling's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, this world of torture and adventure is present.

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One of the issues described by parents and other adults in most articles are centered on children’s literature and the censorship debate. This is indicated clearly by views on children developing morals and values and the “tension between kid culture and adult marketing.”  There is two extreme point of views where by some parents portray children’s literature as evil when it presents issues many parents don’t want to know of or deal with.  Tales of a young boy attending “Hogwarts School of witchcraft and wizardry travels back and forth between two worlds, the mystical world of magic and the mundane world of muggles.” (Bewitched by Harry Potter, pg. 1)

In J.K Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, this world of torture and adventure is present. Some view Harry Potter as a combination of detective work of Harry Boys and Nancy Drew, a play world of Charles Dickens and Dr. Seuss.  Another words J.K Rowling is viewed as an excellent imaginative author since Lewis Carroll in

Alice in Wonderland.  Potter books transcend fantasy. Others would strongly disagree, “some claim the Potter books lure children into witchcraft.” (In defense of Harry Potter, pg. 2) Grownups are buying books to read to children, but they are also reading the books themselves, which in return leads to “the infantilization of adult culture, the loss of a sense of what a classic really is.” (Besotted with Potter, pg.1)  Everyone young and old in one way or another longs for magic.  In an article by John Monk In defense of Harry Potter, such books reflect “human experience and imagination”.

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        Fantasy! It has always been a target to attack on the bases of untruthfulness, involving magic, imagination and other ‘unrealistic’ views.  The reality of it all, it takes great effort and imagination to write anything, and ‘give it breathing life’.  “People working with children in slums want books about children in slums. This is a realistic way of thinking, assuming that children relate better and recognize books easier to read; however children read of mystery, curiosity and astonishment, whereas adults view fantasy bringing out the literary meaning of a scientific materialistic world.  Parents and other Authorities who specialize in the ...

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