[Sir Taliesin]

Actually for all you Harry Potter bashers out there, I both read the book and saw the movie and thought both were very good. Not up to par with say Tolkien, Robin Hobbs, J.V. Jones or David Eddings, but great for kids. The movie was also quite faithful to the book as well. They are great books to hook kids on reading, which I think is incredibly important. When I was growing up I read stuff like The Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper and The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander. They took me into to Tolkein and from there to other fantasy and Sci-fi. So I think the Harry Potter books are great.