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Ummm ... ok, I confess, it is a poem. But it's a very good one! Edit: That is to say, especially the song version by Loreena McKennitt

Thank you for educating me on the spoiler business. I'm rather technologically inept, I'm afraid. And thanks for the advice on the rest of the series. I might just have to keep reading now:)

I second The Mists of Avalon! A great book, aye. Also, Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising Series has a lot to do with Arthurian legends, etc., but doesn't take place in Arthur's time. And if you read Lord Tennyson's The Lady of Shalott, it's very tragic, about the time of Camelot, and...

I really loved His Dark Materials, but

I wasn't referring to fantasy books in particular - it could be anything, I suppose. And I agree with you that some reading material can be inappropriate, as opposed to causing kids to question their faith. When I said that, I was speaking from the point of view of a teenager from a Christian...

As for Harry Potter, I really enjoy the books, and it upsets me when Christians write it off based on what they've heard about it from other Christians, who have heard about it from someone who heard about it from James Dobson or somebody like that. Christians have to be really careful about...

I read The Amulet of Samarkand as well and really enjoyed it, mostly because Bartimaeus had such a great sense of humor. It was really well done the way Jonathan Stroud alternated between third and first person, because that way the reader gets both the comic relief of Bartimaeus's sarcastic...

I've read all four and really liked them, am waiting for the fifth ... have you read Tithe by the same author? If not, I recomend it.

I read Artemis Fowl and Charlie Bone, and I enjoyed both series. I also read The Spiderwick Chronicles and liked them, although same complaint as bookbug, as soon as you start to get into the story it's over and you have to wait until the next one. I really enjoyed Tithe, by the same author as...