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Over several nights. It took us several months to get through Harry Potter. But now we are reading some shorter ones. It might take just a few nights.

@mrbee: James was a little afraid at the end. He told me to stop reading in an angry voice. but we kept going. When we watched the movie they were a little scared. Nick said "mom that part with Voldermort is a little freaky." My kids are not super sensitive to scary things though. So I think it depends on how your kids react in general.

@Andrea: us too. We have a movie night the weekend after we finish a book so they can see the movie. They get so excited about it and about the book. I love it.

@mrbee: sometimes I try to make a snack or dinner that comes from the book and they really like when I do that. Or I hang up pictures from the book around the house to "decorate" for our movie night. It's pretty fun and the kids love it. My mom just laughs at me. They have been playing Harry potter all weekend!!!

@mrbee: the print outs are pretty easy to find stuff. I just do things from Google images. For Harry potter I print out the house crests, for James and the giant peach I printed out pictures of the actual bugs for the story. Takes me like 5 minutes and they have so much fun.

I think the food is their favorite part. I made pesto spiral pasta and called it crocodile tongues, and some peach salad for James and the giant peach. Now James asks for crocodile tongues all the time.