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Summary: T-Sum's Outlook
Review: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Warner Bros., 1998, 309pp., $6.99
J. K. Rowling ISBN 0-590-35342-XHarry Potter's life stinks. He lives on #4 Privet Drive with his evil aunt, uncle, and cousin. Their lives are perfectly normal. Regular jobs, schools, home... everything. Harry has never even been allowed to say the word 'magic'.
But that is all about to change when a letter arrives by owl messenger. Inside holds an invitation to a new world, beyond his greatest dreams. An invitation to 'Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry'.
He meets Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger, who he couldn't make it through the year without. He also never knew he could play a sport on a broomstick, or befriend a giant, or help hatch a Norwegian Ridgeback Dragon. There is also something hidden in this new, mysterious school he's going to. Something secret, waiting just around the corner.
This book had a slow start, but once it got going I couldn't put it down. This is a mysterious and an adventurous story. I recommend it to anyone and everyone who likes a good story. -Tyler Summitt
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Summary: The 1 who started it all
Review: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone ( or the Philosipher's Stone) was actually the 2nd HP book i bought. The Book is really good though. It tells about Harry and His 1st year of hogwarts and when he met his friends and learn how to play quiditch. This book is exciting and suspenseful and keeps you on the edge of your seat. If you buy this one buy th 2nd, 3rd, and 4th, and maybe the 5th too.
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Summary: This is one of the best books I have ever read.!!!!!!!!!!
Review: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone ...H.P and the Chamber of Secrets ...and H.P, and the prisoner of Azkaban (My mom was in England and got an advance copy)are wonderfully written., I love the way J.K. Rowling writes these books. My dad started reading them to me , but he wasn't going fast enough , so I finished them myself. Read them for yourself. But most of all Do It For The Children
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Summary: A Magical book grabs all
Review: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
"Voldemort killed my parents, remember." Harry Potter lives with his aunt and uncle and his cousin, Dudley .When Aunt Petunia tries to put a sweater on him, it shrinks and shrinks until it could have fit a hand-puppet. When he was running from Dudley's gang, he jumped behind some trash cans and ended up on the roof of his school. Harry Potter isn't a normal boy.
Then suddenly, his whole life changes with the arrival of one letter and a knock on the door. The one knocking is a man named Hagrid who is twice the size of a normal man. He tells Harry that he is a wizard (but not without Uncle Vernon trying to stop him). Harry and Hagrid go to the city the next day and they go into a shop that the muggles (people with no magic in them) can't see. When they go in there, people bombard Harry and shake hands with him. Hagrid tells Harry he is attending Hogwarts School, but Harry is more interested in why everyone was so happy to see him. They go through a brick wall to a place called Diagon Alley where they buy Harry's school supplies. He goes back to the Dursleys for a month and then they go to the train station to see Harry off on the train that brings him to school. But the station doesn't seem to be there. He asks a family with all red hair how to get to the platform, and the magic begins. J.K. Rowling is a great fantasy writer. When I started reading this book, I couldn't put it down. I recommend this book for anyone who likes a book that has a surprise on every page.
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Summary: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Review: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
By: J. K. Rowling
Reviewed by: T. Sun
Period: 1 Harry Potter was and orphan who was forced to live with is Aunt, Uncle, and cousin. Harry Potter was miserable for the first ten years of his life until the fateful day when he received a letter from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. After a day of shopping in Diagon Alley, Harry waits for the train that'll take him to his new school. Once there, Harry is sorted into Gryffindor, one of the four houses at Hogwarts. Harry learns that he is a famous boy for vanquishing the evil wizard Lord Voldemort. As the year goes on, Harry has become the Seeker of the Gryffindor Quidditch team. He has also discovered what lies hidden in Hogwarts, the Sorcerer's Stone. It has the power to turn metal into gold and produces the Elixir of Life. In the end, Harry, Ron, and Hermione go through the trapdoor and stop Professor Quirrell from giving the Stone to Voldemort.
I loved this book because it is told in a way that the author is actually is a kid. She tells the story like she knows what kids today are like, and I like that. An example of Rowling's understanding is this: "Harry smile weakly. Yes, trying on the hat was a lot better than having to do a spell, but he did wish they could have tried it on without everyone watching. The hat seemed to be asking rather a lot: Harry didn't feel brave or quick-witted or any of it at the moment. It only the hat had mentioned a house for people who felt a bit queasy, that would have been the one for him."
Another reason why I like Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is that it has a lot of fantasy. An example of fantasy would be this: "All at once there was a scraping noise and the egg split open. The baby dragon flopped onto the table. It wasn't exactly pretty; Harry thought it looked like a crumpled, black umbrella. Its spiny wings were huge compared to its skinny jet body, it had a long snout with wide nostrils, the stubs of horns and bulging, orange eyes." It's a very interesting description of a dragon. It's really cool.
My favorite part of the book was when Harry was playing Quidditch against Slytherins. It was really exciting and I really liked the way the game went. I was worried when Harry was about to fall off his broom, but I was relieved Hermione managed to distract Quirrell from jinxing Harry's broom. I was very content in the end of the game when Gryffindor won. I was funny that Harry nearly swallowed the Golden Snitch.
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Summary: Harry Potter an Extraordinary or Poor Book?
Review: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling is one the best books to read by any age. This book has elements that will keep the interest of a reader. After you have read the book once you would want to read it again. The book tells a story of a boy who finds out he is a wizard. Ten years old Harry Potter lives with his mean uncle Vernon, his wife Petuna, and their young bratty son Dudley. Harry's parents were believed to have been killed in a car crash, but in fact they were killed by a powerful dark wizard named Voldemort. On Harry's eleventh birthday a giant tells Harry that he is a wizard. He is then sent to a world where fairy tales come true in order to learn the ways and magic of a wizard. The story goes to describe Harry's adventure in this land and the past that is sealed by his Uncle and Aunt. The plot keeps the readers drawn to the story. The world of magic and fantasy would persuade a child to read this book. Harry Potter is an extraordinary story that is interesting to readers, young or old alike. The story plot of a child who is a wizard would attract a child to this book. Most Stories that has been told by a child consist of fairy tale elements. Some examples of fairy tale elements, such as: giants, trolls, magic, and mystical worlds are all included in Harry Potter. The first three chapters lack the fairy tale elements of a fairy tale book but as the reader continues to read the book more and more fairy tale elements are introduced. Another element that makes this book an excellent book to read is the magic written about in Harry Potter. A new type of fantasy world is introduced in this book. In a child's mind his or her world consists of imagination. Harry Potter extends a child's imagination. A child dislikes reading books which tend to get boring. In order for a child to read, a book should include elements of imagination. Harry Potter is introduces into his new world, trolls, giants, unicorns, castles, forbidden forests, ghost, and wizards. As the child reads this book he would imagine himself as Harry Potter. In the book, J. K. Rowling describes Harry as an excellent student who finishes his homework. As a child learns some of Harry Potter's characteristics he or she would perform his homework and imitate some of his other characteristics so he or she can be more like Harry Potter. This book can be considered to be a good means to persuade a child that reading is fun. Although as the book is good there are some small drawbacks to it. It is intended for young readers and for some older readers it may not be appealing. The entire vocabulary used in this book in simple and suitable only for third or fourth grades. In order for this book to lure a child to read, J. K. Rowling should have included some harder vocabulary words so the child would learn some vocabulary words that are presented in the seventh grades. In spite of the drawbacks of this book Harry Potter is a capital book to read for young and older readers. A person who write a book that encourages a child to read, she or he may be considered the best author in the world. Harry Potter has the best qualities of a children's book. A book that includes a good plot and fantasylands where kids can imagine them in are interesting books to read, Harry Potter is an outstanding book to read even if it is intended for young kids.
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Summary: Got Time To Read
Review: Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone by J.K Rowling is a fantasy story with exciting characters that keep you reading until the end of the book. Harry is with the Dursley's and he gets a letter from Hogwarts. The Dursley's keep moving him so the letters can't get to him. Finally they move him into a beach house,where a guy named Hagrid from Hogwarts finds him. I would recommend this book to a child from 7-14 years old. The children will like the majic tricks and the Quidditch games.
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Summary: A very interesting novel about wizards and witches
Review: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K, Rowing, is one of the best novels I have read in a really long time. This great book is mostly about wizards, how Harry Potter an eleven year old wizard had a lot of intresting adventures with his friends, making the reader not want to stop reading the book. In overall this is an excellent book to read and have in your personal library. I would like to recommend this magical book to everyone from a kid to an adult.
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Summary: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Review: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling has had a lot of success and it is no wander why. The book has many elements to it that make a good book just that. The plot is well thought out and extremely well developed and has many small conflicts along the way to keep the reader entertained. It has many surprises and parts that will make you think, and it has an outstanding ending that makes the reader want to read the other books. J.K. Rowling creates a world of witches and wizards believable and a lot of that is the characters in the book. The characters are round and seem real which is one of the best parts about the book. She does an excellent job of making the reader connect to the characters and does great job of building their personalities through the book. This book is good for readers for 10 to 18 years old because the plot very good and I think many older teenagers would like Harry Potter as well. This was a book made me feel s though I was not reading. I am not a big reader so me liking Harry Potter is a big deal and a credit to the author. I give this book a five out of five for a great plot and great characters. I plan to read the rest of the books because the first one was very good.
Marc B.
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Summary: A Review of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Review: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling is a great fiction book that should be recommended to children of all ages. Harry Potter has never been the star of a Quidditch team, scoring points while riding a broom far above the ground. He knows no spells, has never helped to hatch a dragon, and has never worn a cloak of invisibility. All he knows is a hard life with the Dursley's, his horrible aunt and uncle, and their son Dudley, where he is forced to live in a tiny room at the foot of the stairs. A mysterious letter arrives by an owl messenger, inviting him to an incredible place that he has never heard of before. It is there that he finds not only many friends, his talent in the game of Quidditch, and magic in everything, but a great destiny that has been waiting for him... if Harry can survive the encounter. J.K. Rowling uses a very historical and fantisizing style of writing in this work of fiction, and he really provides the reader with much suspense and tension of what is going to come next. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone was a very interesting and entertaining book. It provided the reader with much comedy and it allowed for them to really expand their imagination while trying to fantasize about the many occurences. It also kept the reader on their toes about what event was going to happen next. This book has really altered the way I look at a fiction and fantasy book. It really showed the importance of fiction and fantasy that is present in a book by presenting it in a very interesting matter. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone was really a very entertaining and fascinating book that will be of great memory to me forever. It really allowed for me to expand my imagination to great heights and to see fiction and fantasy in a totaly different way.
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