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A Guide to the Harry Potter Novels (Contemporary classics in children's literature)

A Guide to the Harry Potter Novels (Contemporary classics in children's literature)

by JuliaEccleshare (Author)

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    Paperback 2002

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Synopsis

JK Rowling now is half-way through a series which has taken the world by storm. Unusually, she has attracted success both in terms of massive sales figures and critical acclaim. This study will look at her books and consider some of the reasons for their phenomenal success. This will be done against a background of how Harry Potter relates to other contemporary children+as books so that students and teachers can place them in the context for which they were written.This book has not been authorized by JK Rowling, her agent, or Warner Bros.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 112
 Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Published: 07 Mar 2002
ISBN 10: 0826453171
ISBN 13: 9780826453174

Media Reviews
a thoughtful introduction to the phenomenon that began in 1997 with the publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Children's Literature Association Quarterly, Winter 02-03
Author Bio
Julia Eccleshare is children's books editor of the Guardian (one of the UK's top broadsheets). She has written on children's books for 25 years and regularly appears on BBC programmes and in The Bookseller. One of her reviews provided blurb for the first paperback edition of Harry Potter.