book 1, Harry Potter
No. of pages 352
Published: 2018
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This is book 1 in Harry Potter .
There are 352 pages in this book. This book was published 2018 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC .
J K Rowling grew up in a small village on the English/Welsh border. In 1990, after moving to London, she was sitting on a delayed train back home from Manchester when she had the idea of a boy wizard who went to wizarding school. It took a year for her agent Christopher Little to find a publisher. Lots of them turned it down. In June 1997 Bloomsbury published Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone under the name J. K. Rowling. The next six books of the Harry Potter series took her nearly another 10 years to write and publish, with the movies based on the books released in between publications. JK also wrote three short Hogwarts Library companion books for charity: Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them in aid of Comic Relief, and The Tales of Beedle the Bard in aid of Lumos. In 2016 she worked with playwright Jack Thorne and director John Tiffany to continue Harrys story in a stage play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which opened in London, followed by the USA and Australia. She also wrote the screenplay for the film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the first in a series of new adventures, taking place before the time of Harry Potter, featuring wizarding world magizoologist Newt Scamander, the author of the book she created for Comic Relief in 2001. The second film, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, was released in 2018, and the third in 2022. JK has also written The Ickabog, and The Christmas Pig, a standalone adventure story about a boys love for his most treasured thing and how far he will go to find it. The author lives in Scotland with her family and two dogs. https://stories. jkrowling. com/en-us/home/
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This book contains the following story:
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Harry Potter is a wizard. He doesn't know this yet. He's too busy dealing with his meanie aunt and uncle and horrid cousin. But on his eleventh birthday he finds out he's special, and off to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Here he is befriended by Ron and Hermione, and together they must save the philosopher's stone from falling into the hands of the most evil wizard ever invented, Lord Voldemort.
This book is in the following series:
Harry Potter
The seven Harry Potter books follow the adventures of our hero, Harry Potter, as he attempts to defeat the evil wizard Voldemort. The stories inspired the seven films that told Harry's story, the spin off Fantastic Beasts and Where to find Them, and a host of tie in stories, movie books and even quizzes.
This book has been nominated for the following awards:
Children's Book Award
This book was recognised by the Children's Book Award.
Whitbread Book Award
This book was recognised in the Novel category by the Whitbread Book Award.
Carnegie Medal
This book was recognised by the Carnegie Award. The CILIP Carnegie Medal is awarded by childrens librarians for an outstanding book written in English for children and young people.
Guardian Fiction Award
This book was recognised by the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize Award. This award was founded in 1967 and winners are selected by fellow writers. It is awarded annually to fiction written for children aged eight and above.
Children's Book Award
This book was recognised in the Long Novel category by the Children's Book Award.
Smarties Book Award
This book was recognised in the Ages 9-11 Years category by the Smarties Book Award.
Bbc Book Awards
This book was recognised in the Big Read Top 100 category by the Bbc Book Awards.
Talkies Award
This book was recognised in the Ages 5+ category by the Talkies Award.
Smarties Book Award
This book was recognised by the Smarties Book Award.
Whitaker Platinum Book Award
This book was recognised by the Whitaker Platinum Book Award.
