Harry Potter Stationery Kit (Stationery)

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Amazon.com Review

Forget e-mail! The Harry Potter Deluxe Stationery Kit will remind kids of the world beyond (or before!) keyboards and cyberspace. Open the lid of this intriguing blue box and pull out the two drawers to find an address book, sticker sheet, pocket photo album, rubber stamp with bolt of lightning, 10 envelopes, and 8 sheets of stationery with the HP insignia. This compact kit is sure to inspire young fans of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series to write, write, write. Now, where are those owl messengers when you need them? (Ages 5 to 12) --Emilie Coulter

Product Description

This beautiful Harry Potter stationery kit includes lighting bolt inking stamp, pocket-sized photo album, 8 four-color stationery sheets with matching envelopes, 1 sheet of four-color stickers, 24-page address book with four color cover. Rich classic colors and spot art throughout.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9-12
  
• Stationery
• Publisher: Scholastic (December 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0439236584
• ISBN-13: 978-0439236584
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 6.1 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,181,633 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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72 of 77 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Third time lucky?, April 18, 2001

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

... And so I will attempt yet again to review the Harry Potter Stationery Kit totally objectively, without regard to the motive or intent of Scholastic Books or J. K. Rowling. Where the kit delights children so that they learn to love writing it is a terrific thing. But as I look at it I must reflect that many of us have had the unfortunate experience of delight at a gift turning to disappointment upon closer examination. The Harry Potter Stationery Kit seems certain to allow our children to share this experience. It contains a mere 8 sheets of paper and 10 envelopes, and some peripherals. Can a love of writing be learned with only eight pages of stationery? Or are we so controlled by the television mindset that our children are expected and even encouraged by the products they use to lose interest in any activity that takes a prolonged effort? Paper is not so expensive that this product couldn't come with 80 sheets of stationery at the same price--compare the price of this product to a Harry Potter book of some 400 pages, which you can now purchase on sale at almost the same price. Surely it violates some copyright or trademark for the recipient to take his Harry Potter stationery to a color photocopier, but what else are they to do? The situation with the envelopes is even more bizarre. Most stationery kits come with more paper than envelopes (so that you can write letters longer than a single page), but here the situation is reversed--10 envelopes and 8 pages of stationery? I'm reminded of hotdogs and buns--they never seem to match. And also like hotdogs, there is a lot of filler here. A single small sheet of stickers (again, how exceedingly miserly), a "pocket photo-album" (in Hong Kong the photo developers GIVE these away), a lightning bolt stamp (for all your lightning bolt stamping needs), and a 24 page address book. Now, how many children aged 5 -12 do you know that need or even want an address book? Oddly enough, there is no Harry Potter pen or pencil or eraser, stuff kids would use every day. Oh, yeah, and I forgot--it also comes in a box. Probably once the paper is all gone and the stickers stuck, the box is going to give your child the most play value of the entire kit. Clearly the world is not the way I'd have it.

34 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fun and practical, November 5, 2001

By	Catspec "Catspec" (VT USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Harry Potter Deluxe Stationery (Misc. Supplies)

Using this stationary is fun and I am WAY out of the intended demographic. Even grandmothers can use this handy kit, and it brings a bit of enjoyment and wizardry to our correspondence. Paper - 25 sheets!! Envelopes - 12?? Could be more, a rather awkward brown calligraphy pen, and the best of all - 32 Harry Potter stickers. I love it. Not babyish, and a bit wacky - can be used as a lap table because the kit is its own writing suface and the stickers and pen and envelopes hide with your postage stamps in a drawer - the whole thing is the size of a Harry Potter book.

86 of 101 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Are you nuts?, November 21, 2000

By	Karen Bronshteyn (Minneapolis, MN United States) - See all my reviews

What good is a stationery kit that only has 8 pieces of paper???