Harry Potter Hogwarts Journal (Hardcover)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review
Life at school--whether a regular Muggle school or Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry--can be lively, complicated, dangerous, and fun. Keeping track of it all is no easy feat for a nonmagical Muggle. This 64-page, hardcover Harry Potter Deluxe Journal is the perfect place to organize thoughts and compare notes with Harry Potter about friends, school, and teachers. Two pages of stickers can be used to decorate the journal, or you can be even more creative with drawings, cutout pictures, photos, and notes. Each page, printed with a light backdrop of a stone wall, is headed with a theme or idea from the brilliant Harry Potter series to inspire the journalist: "Decidedly Nonmagical Moments," "Secret Wishes (in the Mirror of Erised)," or "Pets Only a Gryffindor Could Love." Fans of the series can test their knowledge or treat the subject heads as a creative starting point for their own stories, lists, or poems. The marbled blue cover features an illustration of Harry and his friends in a moonlit boat, approaching Hogwarts for the first time. Who knows, the next J.K. Rowling may be in our midst, just waiting for encouragement, opportunity and a place to start writing! (Ages 5 to 12) --Emilie Coulter

Product Description
Keep your Harry Potter memories in this special deluxe journal. Includes write-in pages, two sheets of four-color stickers, two color spot art throughout, four color cover art, concealed wire-o binding.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 64 pages
• Publisher: Scholastic (December 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0439236533
• ISBN-13: 978-0439236539
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 8.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #576,138 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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39 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Let Harry inspire your kids to write!, November 6, 2000

By	A mom of Harry fans (Washington, USA) - See all my reviews

Harry Potter has inspired our children to read. Now, with a journal, he can inspire them to write!

I never suspected my "do-I-have-to-read?" ten-year-old would want to curl up with a book, but J. K. Rowling's brilliant series have shown her the joys of opening a page and becoming part of a magical world. Now my dyslexic eight-year-old is trying to read them too!

Both of them are the proud owners of Harry Potter journals, and what do you know? They're writing! What better gift could you give a child than something that expands their minds and encourages their creativity?

32 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Every Muggle should have one!, November 7, 2000

By	M. Fritz "CTMom31" (Norwich, CT USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is a wonderful journal. The illustrations on the cover are fantastic. Very colorful and eyecatching. I bought this for my son who is a big Harry Potter Fan. A hard cover protects your thoughts and I fully expect this journal to hold up over time. It's very well made!

42 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Don't be deceived--this is NOT a Harry Potter STORY, April 4, 2001

By	Dr. Christopher Coleman (HONG KONG) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

As far as Harry Potter merchandise goes, the Hogwarts Journal isn't too bad. It seems far more intriguing to most kids than garbage like those horrid pieces of plastic which are supposed to be "magic stones." The journal is a spiral bound notebook, with appropriately Potter-y art and design on the front and inside. It comes with two full-sized pages of stickers with very colorful and well-executed pictures. Some kids will think that the stickers alone are worth the price--whether their parents will agree is questionable. Inside the journal are some topic headings--nothing more than three or four lines. Page backs have no writing at all. And herein lies my primary concern about this product--that if a child is expecting HARRY POTTER'S Hogwarts Journal, they are sure to be disappointed. This is not a storybook--it contains no stories, no plot, no characters. It is a fancy notebook, a place for children to draw and write, not for them to read about Harry Potter's Hogwarts experience. As such, the Harry Potter tie-in is sure to encourage children to be creative and I have to applaud it for that. But I do think the huge "Harry Potter" on the cover could easily be misleading. My other qualm is that for the price only 64 pages seems discouragingly miserly, especially compared to the Harry Potter books with about seven times the number of pages, all with printing that had to be typeset--and a STORY! The escalating cost of textbooks is always a concern, but with "bargains" like this, who could ever afford the cost of tuition at Hogwarts?