I think your comment best describes what happened. My son was 7 when the first book came out. My husband bought it to read to him but quickly read it himself first ( basically devoured it). I remember being thrilled that we had a book that especially got both boys and girls reading it. It was truly a phenomenon. Early internet for the first books. Now there is so much noise over everything that it’s hard to tell what is being pushed versus what is being driven by word of mouth.
I think your comment best describes what happened. My son was 7 when the first book came out. My husband bought it to read to him but quickly read it himself first ( basically devoured it). I remember being thrilled that we had a book that especially got both boys and girls reading it. It was truly a phenomenon. Early internet for the first books. Now there is so much noise over everything that it’s hard to tell what is being pushed versus what is being driven by word of mouth.