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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: Illustrated Edition


Harry Potter

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No. of pages 272

Published: 2019

Great for age 5-12 years

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Jim Kays dazzling depiction of J.K. Rowlings wizarding world has won legions of fans since the first Illustrated Edition of the Harry Potter novels was published in hardback in 2015, becoming a bestseller around the world. This irresistible smaller-format paperback edition of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets perfectly pairs J.K. Rowling's storytelling genius with the enchantment of Jim Kay's illustrations, bringing the magic of Harry Potter to new readers with full-colour pictures and a handsome poster pull-out at the back of the book. This edition has been beautifully redesigned with selected illustration highlights the fully illustrated edition is still available in hardback. Fizzing with magic and brimming with humour, this inspired reimagining will captivate wizards and Muggles alike, as Harry and his friends, now in their second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, seek out a legendary chamber and the deadly secret that lies at its heart

 

 

This book is part of a book series called Harry Potter .

There are 272 pages in this book. This book was published in 2019 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC .

Jim Kay worked in the archives of Tate Britain and the Royal Botanic Gardens before becoming a full-time illustrator. He won the Kate Greenaway Medal in 2012 for his illustrations for Patrick Ness's A Monster Calls. More recently, Jim contributed an installation to the V&A Museum's Memory Palace exhibition, and was chosen by J. K. Rowling to illustrate the full-colour editions of the Harry Potter series. He lives in Kettering, Northamptonshire. Visit Jim's website at www. jimkay. co. uk 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/

 

This book contains the following story:

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry is desperate to get back to Hogwarts, but just as he's packing his bags, Dobby, one of the Hogwarts house elves, apparates at the Dursleys and warns him he must not return to Hogwarts. Ignoring him, Harry returns but Dobby was right about Hogwarts not being safe, as 'someone' has opened the Chamber of Secrets and the monster within is petrifying students. Hagrid is suspected, and the students fear they will all be sent home. But Harry, Hermione and Ron are determined they will find the real culprit, defeat the monster and clear Hagrid's name.

This book is in the following series:

Harry Potter
This series of seven books follows the adventures of our hero, Harry Potter, as he attempts to defeat the evil wizard Voldemort.

This book features the following character:

Harry Potter
This book features Rowling's character, Harry Potter.

Seeing Jim Kay's illustrations moved me profoundly. I love his interpretation of Harry Potter's world, and I feel honoured and grateful that he has lent his talent to it * J.K. Rowling *

 

One of the greatest literary adventures of modern times * Sunday Telegraph *

 

The Harry Potter stories will join that small group of children's books which are read and reread into adulthood * Times Literary Supplement *

 

Kay's illustrated edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is a triumph - a book so alive it seems to jump, explode and slither out of your hands as you read * Telegraph on HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE ILLUSTRATED EDITION *