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Summary: Try similar wonderful books by other authors!
Review: This is a wonderful book! Anyone who enjoyed it should be sure to try books by Diana Wynne Jones (especially Witch Week, Wilkins Tooth, Charmed Life, The Ogre Downstairs, and The Homeward Bounders), E. Nesbit, and Edgar Eager. These were my favorites when I was young, and JK Rowling's book felt like a return to that magical time.
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Summary: A great book to read to your family
Review: This is a wonderful book! I just finished reading it to my entire family. (Even my husband didn't miss a reading session!) We all loved it!What saddens me, though, is reading an article today from the Los Angeles Daily News stating how parents from several school districts in CA are trying to ban Harry Potter from school libraries and classrooms. One parent stated that she is even working toward a "censored book list." We have so homogenized what is available to our children that it is no wonder so few children leave anything to imagination anymore. Ask a child today to make up something, and you're bound to get something related to what they've seen on a Saturday morning TV show. This book is a wonderful, fantasy-based book that lets the reader's imagination soar right along with it. Our family is looking forward to reading the further adventures of Harry Potter!
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Summary: Great! My alltime favorite!
Review: This is a WONDERFUL book!:-) It is my favorite and will be for a long time! Gryffindors, Slytherins, Hufflepuffs, and Ravenclaws? I have got to say that J.K. Rowling has a very clever imagination. But there is one problem! How can people say that these books are for 4th graders? I am in 7th grade and I still had trouble understanding it! I think that you would have to be at least in 6th grade to appreciate what this book has to offer. Ms. Rowling, keep 'em coming!
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Summary: great book!
Review: This is a wonderful story about a young boy who finally finds a place to fit in!
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Summary: Wonderful book in the Dahl tradition
Review: This is a wonderful story, for kids or adults. Wonderful story and characters. I read this after my 10 year old daughter insisted and she was right. This weekend, I plan to read the Chamber of Secrets!
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Summary: This book drew me in instantly.
Review: This is a wonderfull book!! Even though it is ment for younger children I still loved it. I think what drew be in was how he was living such a terrible life and then suddenly he is out of it and into something wonderfull. It was a good mix of drama and action. Good for all ages.
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Summary: An Intriguing Twist on the Cinderella Theme!
Review: This is a wonderfully entertaining yet thought-provoking book. Rowling is one of the new greats in children's literature. Harry is abused physically & emotionally, little-knowing that he has a heritage to be proud of. The far-reaching love of his parents & the steadfast (but far from perfect) friends he makes at school give the story life & depth. Nearly every name has a deeper meaning. Excellent reading for anyone 10 or older! FYI, this is NOT a primer for Neo-Pagan religion (Christmas & Easter are celebrated at Hogwart's). If this is a concern for a parent, read & discuss the book with your child. But this book by no means deserves to be banned for that reason.
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Summary: Compelling stuff
Review: This is a wonderfully, deceptively simply written book. Thought I might borrow it from the library and find out what all the fuss was about. Just could not put it down. Simply had to borrow the others in the series. I am hooked. Highly recommended.
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Summary: absolutely fabulous!!!!!!!!
Review: This is about the best book I have read in a long time. I am a 34 year old mom and I just can't get enough of Harry. You feel as if you know him and all of his friends, makes you want to take him home yourself.
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Summary: More please...
Review: This is actually a review of the first three Harry Potter books as a whole. While the first is the most enchanting (only because the concepts are newer and fresher) all three are excellent. The Harry Potter series captures the same sense of wonder and adventure that the Frank Baum 'OZ' series delivered to me when I was a tot. These are the sort of works that parents should celebrate, granting an opportunity to share and interact instead of engaging in vapid television marathons. This is children's fantasy at its best: delighting young readers and restoring youth to their jaded elders. I've seen children with attention spans too short for comic books turn hundreds of pages in rapt attention thanks to Harry Potter. I myself, 26 years young, am anticipating the next release, like I did birthdays when I was a kid. And for those few knee-jerk ultra-reactionary book burners who decry these novels as Satan's work, shame on you. References to witchcraft notwithstanding, the Harry Potter books are a stark excercise in good versus evil, which you'd realize if you'd actually read. I am a Christian, and have taught Sunday school for 8 years; I have no qualms about placing any of these books in a child's hands.
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