Daughter recently turned seven. She had read The Hobbit several times, and listened to the dramatized-version audiobook of _LotR_, so I thought we might give the movie a go. She sat on my lap for the scary parts, although she took it all like a trooper (and evaded all attempts to cover her eyes for the orc attacks and Balrog and so forth). As far as I can tell, she liked it a lot. We have currently taken a break in the middle of the Two Towers, just before Helm's Deep really gets going, because I don't think she finds battles that interesting, and hey, Helm's Deep is pretty intense.

We read the Serpent's Shadow (last Kane Chronicle) together for bedtime reading a month or so ago, and she's since listened to the audiobook, too. I think she liked it, although from what I can gauge, she's not quite as passionate about it as the earlier books? She's still into Egyptian stuff, though. We got her some of the Egyptian Playmobile sets (Sphinx, desert oasis, war chariot, etc.), and she has a whole Egyptian town set up on the floor now. I personally wasn't that impressed/interested with it (particularly the whole dual-identity merge thing? how's that work out?), but then I didn't really follow the two earlier books, so didn't really know where everyone was coming from.

We just recently finished Howl's Moving Castle, and are about a 100 pages into The Golden Compass.