That are actually age-appropriate, unlike the books? 
My son is 2. My husband picked up my copy of The Sorcerer's Stone and started reading it...well, my son asked him to read it out loud to him. So he did. My son loved it--he finished the book in about a week and a half, but he just wants to read it over and over! Right now when we read we censor any language we are uncomfortable with (such as substituting "silly" for "stupid" and "be quiet" or "hush" for "shut up") and gloss over or skip parts that deal with situations that we just don't want to expose our 2-year old to (such as parts of the story that talk about the death of Harry's parents). Of course, a lot of the more mature themes go right over our LO's head anyway, but we still don't want to have to answer questions about things like death just yet...
I think it's great that our kiddo loves the books and wants to be read to as much as he does. I love the books and was hoping he'd be interested--but of course I didn't think that it would come up for several more years! I just don't feel that they are age-appropriate right now--I am comfortable with having read the first book and censoring the way we did, but I don't think we should move on to the other books in the series (maybe the second...my husband is reading the second one now, and I think he has read parts of it to DS...but no further). So, I've searched online for any toddler or pre-school age versions of the story, but so far no such luck (and I honestly don't know how you'd water it down enough to make a kid's picture book out of it, anyway). Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions of something Harry Potter-related that I could give to my little one that would actually be appropriate for his age (we avoid plastic toys as much as possible and are tv-free)? He's running around talking about Hogwarts and Quidditch...when he started talking about dinosaurs it was easy to foster his interest, but I'm kind of lost here!
Thanks!
My son is 2. My husband picked up my copy of The Sorcerer's Stone and started reading it...well, my son asked him to read it out loud to him. So he did. My son loved it--he finished the book in about a week and a half, but he just wants to read it over and over! Right now when we read we censor any language we are uncomfortable with (such as substituting "silly" for "stupid" and "be quiet" or "hush" for "shut up") and gloss over or skip parts that deal with situations that we just don't want to expose our 2-year old to (such as parts of the story that talk about the death of Harry's parents). Of course, a lot of the more mature themes go right over our LO's head anyway, but we still don't want to have to answer questions about things like death just yet...I think it's great that our kiddo loves the books and wants to be read to as much as he does. I love the books and was hoping he'd be interested--but of course I didn't think that it would come up for several more years! I just don't feel that they are age-appropriate right now--I am comfortable with having read the first book and censoring the way we did, but I don't think we should move on to the other books in the series (maybe the second...my husband is reading the second one now, and I think he has read parts of it to DS...but no further). So, I've searched online for any toddler or pre-school age versions of the story, but so far no such luck (and I honestly don't know how you'd water it down enough to make a kid's picture book out of it, anyway). Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions of something Harry Potter-related that I could give to my little one that would actually be appropriate for his age (we avoid plastic toys as much as possible and are tv-free)? He's running around talking about Hogwarts and Quidditch...when he started talking about dinosaurs it was easy to foster his interest, but I'm kind of lost here!
Thanks!
I didn't even think of dress-up stuff (duh me). I usually avoid stuffed animals because it seems we have too many already, but if it can be a prop in dress-up, pretend play, well...seems like a good idea to me!
I'm not a great knitter (I don't see a handmade Weasley sweater in my immediate future), but I have the basics, so I MUST make a Gryffindor scarf!! Ooohhh, see, now I'm getting excited. Just hope the LO doesn't get burned out on HP before he's old enough to read them himself! 
