Customer Reviews

We Love Harry Potter!

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(19)

 

 

I bought this book out of optimism, because I thought that anything praising Harry Potter would be relatively harmless. When I ordered the fourth instalment from a shop, I was nearly made to buy it again. Thankfully, I didn't - once was enough.

What is the point of this book? Reading this repeatedly is enough to put you off Harry Potter. The book itself is divided into sections, as follows:

1. The children's opinions on the series. Most of the children made mistakes that showed how little they had understood of the Harry Potter books, such as talking about "Madam Pooch", and asking, "I don't see why Mrs Norris had to die..." when she didn't. The information that was correct was usually unhelpful and unnecessary. Even people who haven't read the books have probably gathered by now that Harry is, well, the goodie. They even went so far as to tell us personal information about their pets: "I have a pet frog whom I keep in a cage and feed crickets." Ms Moore didn't help, either; she regularly wrote unnecessary columns between the letters to talk about such irrelevant matters as Thanksgiving dinner and Valentine's Day.

There were "letters" to Hogwarts, there was a trivial trivia quiz and there was even an anagram puzzle in which about half the words were related to wizardry. There were comments about how Quidditch could be played on the ground, or with scrap metal claws (enough said), and even some pointless recipes - or, in some cases, non-recipes. A quote: "Last year I mad a restaurant called Slimy Louie's which served Road Kill Stew and Rat-tat-tooy. I didn't include Stuffed Owl because you wouldn't want to eat Hedwig or Errol." I won't make any more comments. I don't think they're needed. This material is normally channelled into amateur websites, not books.

On the back you will read: "Do you want to find out what others have said about how they'd like to fly on a hippogriff or raise a pet dragon?" Think about this. Do you? As other reviewers have commented, there's nothing new to be gained from this book. However, I have thought of one use for this book. It would be superb, all 100 or so pages of it, as kindling for a bonfire. And that's what I'm going to use my copy as.

I wish they WOULDN'T tell us why they love Harry Potter... or, if they must insist on such behavior, then I secondly wish that they would say something other than "I love Harry; I hate Voldemort" until they are blue in the face. The book's just a gimmick to make money off of Harry's fame, so don't buy into it (literally). There's nothing new to be gleaned from this unless one is specifically looking for a bunch of monotonous 8-year-old praise.

In this collection, children talked about the Harry Potter books. Unfortunately, the entire first half of this book was endless reviews of the books, many of which were wrong and/or repititious. I was bored out of my mind by these reviews, which told the storyline but not what the children enjoyed about the books, and HELLO, we already KNOW the storylines, right? The last part was some letters and recipes and other things, and overall the title "We love Harry Potter; WE'LL TELL YOU WHY" is completely false. I wish it had been thought out more and better edited.

When someone gave me that book to read, I thought it would be fun to see what children think of Harry Potter, to see how his story fuels their imagination. Instead, all I found was incomprehensible gibberish (and proof that few of those children have really understood the Harry Potter stories), and boring and pointless comments like "I love Harry. I hate Snape." over and over again. Any guestbook on any Harry Potter website provides more insight into kids' thoughts than Mrs. Moore's book. Good thing I didn't spend any money on it - the waste of time was bad enough.

First off I didn't buy this book to get more Harry....no book could replace the REAL thing.

But because I plan on educating this age group, I thought it would be cute to get a kid's perspective of these books. And yes there was a lot of incorrect information, but a lot of that came from the children's mouths not the authors. Personally, as a future educator I found it fascinating to see what facts kids got straight and which ones they had trouble comprehending.

If your a Harry Potter fan looking for a fix then this isn't your book, but if you are someone interested in a kid's perspective (assuming you don't have your own) then it's a "cute" and somewhat enlightening read.

Along with any popular idea, whether it is new technology, new fashion, or new literature (ahem!) there are knockoffs and cheap attempts to make a buck off the wave of success. This book is an example of someone doing something completely uncreative, simply throwing the name "Harry Potter" in the title, so it would come up in searches for the genuine thing. The Harry Potter series is wonderfully successful, and rightly so. It is full of magical adventures, real trials and tribulations, and enchants adults and children alike. Let's discuss why we love Harry with a neighbor, cousin, neice, grandchild, or friend, not with an inane book that manufactures these conversations for us.

I would have given this cheap knockoff negative five stars....and thrown an invisibility cloak over it, and shipped it off ot Azkaban!

<clicking at stars> What? 0 isn't an option? Oh, fine, I'll settle for one, in the opinion that the book had a nice typeface.

Hey, kids, want to waste your money?

YES!

Want to read increasingly repetitive opinions of grade-schoolers you don't even know/care about?

YES!

Then go buy this book, it'll do wonders for your digestive system! Act like a pure laxative!

Alright, that was harsh. But I was disgusted. I flipped through nine-year-olds talking about how they love Harry and hate Voldemort and like the books and how many times they've read this, and that, until I was sick of it. Then I read recipies that were downright poisonous, and one that didn't go anywhere; a girl tried to make butterbeer, and it didn't work. So that was a recipie. (Who honestly would mix butter into a beverage! )

Sorry, this book just didn't cut it. Why waste your time? We already KNOW about the plots of the books. We're already obsessed. (I'm not coming out as a bad guy/girl here. I LOVE Harry Potter. But am I publishing a pointless paperback not even worth half a Knut?) I can't write anymore. You guys all get the idea here...

I loved all the Harry Potter books, but was very skeptical to read them beforehand because of books like these.It turns a really good and mature book and turns it into one of those stupid "ralphie ralph and the detective club" books. The kids who wrote in the book don't sound smart enough to understand it. This more than anything I have ever seen before does shame to the image of the Harry Potter books, it is truly stupid.

...For avid Harry Potter fans such as myself, there is no pointto getting it, because it tells you what you already know. Then theypolled like 75 kids just so they could say the same thing about the Harry Potter books ("Hi, I'm 8 years old, my favorite character is Ron, I hate Dudley, Voldemort is scary") etc. etc. Like, 50 pages of that! The only interesting part in this book was where people where making some of the exotic foods like Butterbeer and stuff. DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT waste your money on this "book" unless you know NOTHING WHATSOEVER about Harry Potter and you like to be bored by reading endless monotone reviews that are all alike. END

DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS BOOK. Don't even waste your time reading it at the library or book store. Ms. Moore saw a popular franchise and latched on, hoping to make a killing selling a cheesy book with harry potter in the title.

Nothing new, nothing good, worth... nothing.