The Reader's Guide to Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (The Harry Potter Lexicon Reader's Guide Series) [Kindle Edition]

Steve Vander Ark (Author)

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Product Description

Explore Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone with Steve Vander Ark, who has spent well over a decade researching and cataloguing J.K. Rowling’s imaginative world. Vander Ark, the creator and editor of the Harry Potter Lexicon website and author of two previous books about Harry Potter, takes you through the book line by line, sharing insights, trivia, background details, and connections in this unofficial guide.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 310 KB
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B005LAW9ZS
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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More About the Author

Steve knows way more about Harry Potter than anyone ever should and loves sharing what he's discovered with fans all over the world. He's the webmaster and editor of the Harry Potter Lexicon website, the premier reference source about the world of Harry Potter, and a popular presenter at Harry Potter events. His podcast (ingeniously entitled "The HP Lexicon Podcast") takes listeners on an entertaining ramble through the Harry Potter books.

As a teacher and librarian, Steve has also led seminars about technology in education and about literacy and teaching writing. He presents for groups of middle school kids his own take on "Nine Reasons NOT To Read A Book". Somehow Steve has also found time to be the resident director for a theatre company and has directed everything from dinner theatre to full musicals.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Guide to Harry Potter Book 1 from the perspective of the series as a whole., September 5, 2011

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Nicholas Moline "The PortalKeeper" (Mountain View, CA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Reader's Guide to Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (The Harry Potter Lexicon Reader's Guide Series) (Kindle Edition)

I've gotten the pleasure of reading this book before it went live, and it is absolutely a fantastic page by page and line by line overview of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's/Sorcerer's Stone.

It comes at an especially great time in the fandom, with the release of Pottermore around the corner (and even now for those few of us who are already on the site) we find ourselves wanting to re-read the Harry Potter series while we discover the new content on Pottermore. There is no better guide to re-discovering Harry's World then Steve's new book.

Each book will give you his thoughts as well as point out things that we didn't notice the first time reading the series, clues that point to later in Rowling's books, and we can begin to see how they connect even back from the beginning.

As a fan of the Harry Potter series, I found Steve's book a tremendous starter for talking points with other fans. I highly recommend this cheap little guide book, as your map to re-discovering Harry's Magical World.