Like Harry Potter, has wizardry inside, and has soared beyond her modest Muggles surroundings to achieve something quite special."-The New York Times Book Review"A charming, imaginative, magical confection of a novel.a glorious debut, a book of wonderful comic pleasures and dizzying imaginative flights.
"Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" is as funny, moving and impressive as the story behind its writing. The book is full of wonderful, sly humor the characters are impressively three-dimensional (occasionally, four-dimensional!) and move along seamlessly through the narrative. Rowling has a gift for keeping the emotions, fears, and triumphs of her characters on a human scale, even while the supernatural is popping out all over. PRAISE FOR HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE (September, 1998)"A wonderful first novel. Rowling wanted to be a writer, and is at her happiest in a room, making things up. She supports a wide number of humanitarian causes through her charitable trust Volant, and is the founder of the children’s care reform charity Lumos.įor as long as she can remember, J.K. Rowling has received many awards and honors for her writing, including for her detective series written under the name Robert Galbraith. In 2020, she returned to publishing for younger children with the fairy tale The Ickabog, which she initially published for free online for children in lockdown, later donating all her book royalties to help vulnerable groups affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. Rowling wrote with playwright Jack Thorne and director John Tiffany. Harry’s story as a grown-up was later continued in a stage play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which J.K. She also wrote three short series companion volumes for charity, including Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which later became the inspiration for a new series of films. Rowling is the author of the seven Harry Potter books, which have sold over 500 million copies, been translated into over 80 languages, and made into eight blockbuster films.
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