Just finished reading the first Harry Potter book to our daughter who is 6. She paid attention to the whole story and even tried to sneak the book to daycare to read the last chapter herself. We got the movie and she watched it two days in a row, and told us many differences between the book and the movie. We LOVE that we got her hooked on a good story. We've read other books to her before, but she never tried to sneak one out to finish it herself. Right now, I "accidentally" mentioned that maybe book two is the one where Voldemort kills Hermione, and left the room. Now I can hear her in the other room freaking out and reading the sleeve cover to see if that is true. Love it!