Librarians recommend books for 'Harry Potter' fans

  June 21, 2005 at 10:51 PM ET
  Cheeser     Yahoo! News (via ALA)
  books for harry potter fans, good books, recommended reading

The American Library Association, through its Association for Library Service to Children division, released a recommended reading list today for Harry Potter fans waiting impatiently for the July 16 release of the sixth JK Rowling novel in the series.

The list was created by children's librarians using the following criteria: "books that have similar story elements and replicate accessibility, tone and flavor; and books that are similar in theme but may be more complex."

Included in the first is Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events and Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl series. More "complex" novels included Michael Ende's The Neverending Story, C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia, Madaleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle In Time and Christopher Paolini's Eragon.