Oh Hogwarts!

Ben has recently started reading the Harry Potter books. A few weeks ago he and Jenny started reading the first one together, and Ben was instantly hooked. A while back he expressed an interest in watching the movies, so we told him he would have to read the books before he saw the movies. We helped him get started by reading the first part of the book with him, so he would know all the names and terminology. He took it from there and finished the book on his own. In fact, Jenny asked him to slow down so they could finish it together, but Ben secretly read additional chapters every night on his own in bed with a flashlight and eventually finished it. Throughout his time with the book we would constantly quiz him about what's going on, just to see how well he was retaining the story, and he could recall just about everything. So now he's onto book 2. It's pretty cool to see him so excited about longer books at such an early age. He reads a lot of short chapter books which are at his age level, but this is the first time he's read a book that's over 200 pages and no pictures. So it's been exciting to see him progress.