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[15] In a newspaper review in The New York Times, it was said that "'The Prisoner of Azkaban' may be the best 'Harry Potter' book yet". [16] A reviewer for KidsReads said, "This crisply-paced fantasy will leave you hungry for the four additional Harry books that J.K. Rowling is working on. Harry's third year is a charm.
The original British English versions of the book were published in the United Kingdom by Bloomsbury.Note that in some countries, such as Spain and India, the series has been translated into several local languages; sometimes the book has been translated into two dialects of the same language in two countries (for example, separate Portuguese versions for Brazil and Portugal).
Early access to the first four chapters of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. 2: 21 November 2012: Gryffindor: Screen savers and desktop backgrounds. 3: 25 April 2013: Slytherin: Early access to Montrose Magpies badge. 4: 12 September 2013: Hufflepuff: Early access to Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. 5: 30 March 2014: Ravenclaw
In 2000 the third novel, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, was nominated for an adult award – the Whitbread Book of the Year – where it competed against a book by a Nobel Prize laureate (Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf). The award body gave Rowling the children's prize instead (worth half the cash amount); some scholars view ...
The book's fictional author, Newt Scamander, does not appear in the main Harry Potter book series. However, his name is seen on the Marauder's Map in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban film. [4] He is the central character of the Fantastic Beasts film series, in which he is played by Eddie Redmayne.
The Elephant House was one of the cafés in Edinburgh where Rowling wrote the first part of Harry Potter.. The series follows the life of a boy named Harry Potter.In the first book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the US), Harry lives in a cupboard under the stairs in the house of the Dursleys, his aunt, uncle and cousin, who all treat him poorly.
Normally a book must date back at least to the middle of last century to be worth tens of thousands of dollars. The exception is Harry Potter, the bespectacled hero of Hogwarts who burst upon the...
It is the first novel in the Harry Potter series and was Rowling's début novel. It follows Harry Potter, a young wizard who discovers his magical heritage on his eleventh birthday when he receives a letter of acceptance to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry makes close friends and a few enemies during his first year at the school.