re: #222 Belafon

For one of my middle son’s classes, he had to list a significant event for every year of his life. for his 10th year, we listed Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief, and declared it to be the most significant event since he was born.

I make my kids read, but I like to find something they they’ll enjoy because I think it will eventually open them up to other stuff. It took us a while with him, but once he read the first of that series, he really hasn’t stopped reading. He also basically became a mythology expert. He’s absorbed books on lots of different religions and mythologies around the world. Every so often, someone at school will challenge my son, and my son’s friends just laugh at the person.

A friend of mine who was teaching middle school at the time the Harry Potter books came out said the same thing about them (I was mentioning that I never understood why they were so celebrated, since there’s so much good fantasy around.)