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Summary: We can't wait to finish the book!
Review: We are a mom, dad and son. We're reading the book out loud before bedtime and haven't finished the book yet, but we really want to know what happens next! The first four chapters or so are a little boring (the part where we meet the Dursleys and get to know how awful they are), but it gets interesting when Harry Potter gets on the train to Hogwarts. The funniest part so far is when Harry sticks his wand up a troll's nose in the girl's bathroom!
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Summary: Excellent Except...
Review: We are enjoying the Harry Potter series of books but inspite of the excellent stories and overall good writing, we have one major concern. Young readers want to believe in magic and dragons and wizards and such. If they are not prepared to understand that Magic, in this sense is a myth and all in fun, they may be encouraged to seek magical experiences through the occult which is the closest reality to the magic presented in the Harry Potter books. There is of course a very real spiritual dark side, only to anxious to initiate our young people into the "secrets" of witchcraft and supposed power over others. With this understanding, they are very enjoyable fiction.
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Summary: A boy's adventure in Magic school
Review: We enjoyed the book very much. Our teacher read the entire book to our entire class everyday. You could hear a pin drop in class while she was reading it to us. At the end we had A Harry Potter Day where we dressed up as our favorite character . We had different stations where we explained the parts of the book to our guests. My favorite part of the book was the man with the two faces...We also liked the mirror of Erised...
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Summary: Great to read outloud!
Review: We found this book very entertaining. I have a daughter in the second grade and we both read the book. It was so much fun reading it outloud. The book kept her attention, made her laugh and at some points put her on the edge of her seat. She read some on her own and seemed to understand most of it.
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Summary: Harry Potter is the greatest book ever written!
Review: We have read both of the Harry Potter books and we have met JK Rowling at a bookshop in Canterbury Kent(UK) She is really funny, pretty and she told us about the next book. It is called Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. If you have not read the Harry Potter books you must be mad! Start now or you will not be able to keep up with the story! There will be 7 books altogether. The Harry Potter stories are exciting, interesting, funny and really great. Alex & Becky Rogers
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Summary: A great book for kids and adults alike!
Review: We just finished reading "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" at our house and it was a big hit with both adults and the 7-yr.-old kid. This is a book written on two levels: the adults will appreciate the humor and the well-defined characters. The kids will be able to cheer for Harry through all his trials and triumphs.Who hasn't wished for something better out of life? For Harry, it's a valid wish, when he is raised (abused?) by Muggle (non-magic) relatives for 11 years before being accepted at Hogwarts, a school for witches and wizards. After cheering for Harry as he leaves a home he despises, we commiserate with him as he learns to fit in not only the new school, but an entire new world, as well. A magical new world, one where the rules have changed - and it is also the world his parents knew, but he never did, until now. This is a school where the dorms are entered through pictures of fat women who insist on a password to enter - and sometimes you can't get in because the woman in the portrait has gone "visiting"! This is where your professors teach potions and spells, and one of the pieces of student equipment is a cauldron. But Harry is the hero, after all, and despite a few setbacks (one of the professors hates him, "detention" includes traipsing through the forbidden forest looking for unicorns, someone is trying to steal a magical object and Harry himself has to learn to live with being a legend since birth - something he didn't know until he turned 11), Harry finds friends and acceptance in the magical world (not to mention in Quidditch circles!) We are looking forward to reading the next book, which is as strong a recommendation a reader can possibly give.
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Summary: We LOVED both Harry Potter books!
Review: We just finished the first two Harry Potter books - and have ordered the 3rd which, evidently, isn't out yet in the U.S. (just came out to hordes of anxious British children days ago). I WOULD RECOMMEND THAT AMAZON LIST THE POTTER BOOKS FOR AGES 9 "AND UP." Amazon has them listed for ages 9-12 - well, I'm 52 and LOVED reading both books to my 11-year-old son (before he lost patience and finished the second one on his own). We reveled in these books, couldn't wait to get to them - "the best books I've ever read, Mom," quoth my son. We're only worried that the author won't keep up with our desire to read more - she can write them only so fast!
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Summary: excellent book for children and parents
Review: we just finished this book and my daughter was begging for the next harry potter book. i had to read ahead to see how the book was going to end, i enjoyed it so much. j.k. rowling has done with harry potter for my daughter's generation what the authors of the nancy drew and hardy boys did for my generation. harry potter and the sorcerer's stone is a must read for children who enjoy magic, suspense and comedy. we have begun the next harry potter adventure--harry potter and the chamber of secrets--and can hardly wait to finish it!!
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Summary: great reading for all ages
Review: we love the book . my son and I can't wait to open the book every evening and read about Harry and his adventures in school.My son loves the part where Harry is flying his broom for his houses team and we can't wait to find out what the 3 headed dog Fluffy is guarding. It is a special time for us when we can share such a wonderful book and he loves thinking a kid can do anything.
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Summary: Want your NonReader to Read-GET THIS BOOK!!!
Review: We purchased both of the Harry Potter books that were available here in the USA and both my kids ages 11 and 7 are constantly fighting over who gets to read them. My 11 year old is usually never interested in reading books, but has been enthralled with both Harry Potter books and has read them both in a matter of days. I, as a parent, am delighted. Harry Potter seems to give them the mystery, adventure and pure fun that all kids look for in a book. My 11 year old is very eagerly awaiting the 3rd book in the series.
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