Kids' Letters to Harry Potter From Around The World [Paperback]

Bill Adler (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 17, 2002 | Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up

With the phenomenally successful film Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, the bespectacled boy wizard's popularity shows no signs of slowing. Here is a charmer of a book for everyone who has ever read and loved a Harry Potter book. Now available in paperback, this is a collection of warm and amusing letters in which kids from all over the world express their admiration and affection for the imaginative, resourceful Harry. In addition to a generous sampling of children's enthusiastic, candid, and often humorous messages that illuminate reader's love affair with Harry Potter, this book also includes interviews with a number of the letter-writers. In the interviews, Harry's fans and newfound companions explore their personal enchantment with the young wizard as they consider the effect of the magical Harry on their lives. "The authors ... excitement for and love of the novels are apparent." — School Library Journal

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

In the opening of Kids' Letters to Harry Potter from Around the World, editor Bill Adler says, "Kids from all over the world sent us letters. Some came via e-mail, some by conventional mail. Some were collected by teachers and librarians and sent to us in a bundle." Adler does not explain how the letters were solicited or whether Potter author J.K. Rowling ever saw this "unauthorized collection." Interviews with the children break the monotony, but the absence of any organizing principle makes this book a thick read.

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

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From School Library Journal

Gr 4-6-The letters in this compilation were collected by Adler with the help of booksellers around the world. The authors hail from New Zealand, Ireland, Germany, and the U.S., among other places. Some write about their own lives and hometowns, while others imagine wizard existences for themselves and write to Harry Potter as peers. Their excitement for and love of the novels are apparent. Many of the letters are accompanied by follow-up interviews with the youngsters, and here is where the collection runs into problems. The interviews are so similar that they quickly become monotonous, and the answers to the interview questions often repeat what the letters say. In addition, the black-and-white illustrations are somewhat bizarre animation drawings and, after the first two or three, have nothing to do with any character in the series. Most fans would probably prefer that libraries save their money and buy extra copies of volume five when it comes out. Sharon Moore's We Love Harry Potter! (St. Martin's, 2001), which includes recipes, games, and letters, offers more variety and fun.

Timothy Capehart, Dayton & Montgomery County Public Library, Dayton, OH

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 6 and up
  
• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Running Press (September 17, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786710586
• ISBN-13: 978-0786710584
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,088,155 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a whole differnet world, August 1, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Kids' Letters to Harry Potter: An Unauthorized Collection (Hardcover)

harry potter has enchanted millions of readers from around the world and pulled the the children away from their television and showed them that reading is fun. read this if you want to see how far a child's imagination can carry him.

9 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's Great, June 29, 2001

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Jill (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kids' Letters to Harry Potter: An Unauthorized Collection (Hardcover)

It's great that people are finally listening to the kids point of views. Its the kids who made this series popular in the first place and then it spread to the parents and to other adults. Without these loyal fans, this series would not have been so popular and its about time that they get some credit for it.

3.0 out of 5 stars good book, April 12, 2009

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Alissa M. Sinibaldi "Harry Potter Fanatic" (MCB Hawaii) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kids' Letters to Harry Potter From Around The World (Paperback)

The book is an interesting read, but I didn't realize it was composed before the 5th book came out, which still makes it interesting because a lot of the kids guess what happens next and it is funny to see who gets it right! It took awhile for shipping, but I am in Hawaii, so that may be the reason!