Yes. But. By the way, Harry Potter was a few movies, a few books, and especially a worldwide publicity campaign like never seen before. Well, it was three quite reasonable juvenile books rather before the big publicity campaign... I liked the one review that said something like "interesting things happen on nearly every page." I've read a lot of books to our kids, and the HP books were pretty exceptional. (Oh, there are lots of books I like better, but a lot of those don't read aloud nearly as well.) BillW -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu