Not only kids. If the number of copies on my train in the mornings is anything to go by it's getting adults to read too.

I got to a press preview of the movie myself this weekend and the film is really good. Its a bit trimmed but the whole heart of the original book is there, and it didn't get "Hollywoodized" either. And contrary to what a certain red-neck baptist may claim it won't cause you to be delivered up to the evil one only chilled by the "one who must not be named".