Not bad, and it's suitable for light reading, espeacially for kids, and it provides further insight on the characters of the book. My younger sister loves it.

with good ideas for those who love telling stories Harry Potter The Characters of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Stained Glass Art Through "Education World " - best resources Addition to the Great Books Guide to Grammar and Writing who we called HarryPotter Quoteland! Good on style and culture; excellent launchpad for any researcher into Harry Potter world! 5 stars product!!!

It was a good guide, but some bits of it were confusing for little kids. For others it worked well and was a great way to get Harry Potter taught in the classrom.

Well, my 9 years old nephew actually LOVE the book. He carries it around everywhere since I bought the book for him. Creatures described in this book are well illustrated, and it actually ressembles the description in the Harry Potter books. Like Norgwarts of Norway that actually green and fluffy. And the dog Fluffy with its three heads are surprisingly illustrated. If your kids really curious about the creatures of Harry Potter, then this book is definitely for them.

This coloring book is a challenge. The fine tip markers included make it possible to do. For children eight and over (even those 50 years old) a pastime that requires mastering. MH

Although several types are mentioned that aren't found in many publications, one common point are missing (at least), Rockwall,

I purchased this book after I've recently been exposed to our local Texas Indian artifacts. This book was extremely helpful in identifying and categorizing items that I have stumbled across. It is a must to have in your backpack!

I collect postcards, and I LOVE the books and movie,so I bought this postcard book. Harry wasn't my favourite character, so I was dissapointed because there were only a couple Ron ones. I wouldn't buy this book if I were you!

This is a lovely poster book!

The picturs are wonderful-just like the movie itself.

IF you know a Harry Potter fan fare away you have to get this- They'll tursher it!

Or do like I do and keep them all just to be happy about and go nuts over if one of your frinds asks for one.

Thats why you would need a LOOOT!

I was very impressed with the postcards in this book: the colors are great and the shots are really good. I totally reccomend it.

Ok, it's pretty much a given that I will buy just about any harry potter item, but this one was the first real disappointment. First of all, I thought this was like the old magic coloring books that give you one pen and then depending on where you color in the picture, it came up a different color. Especially great for little ones, because you could never color out of the lines! But this, sadly, was not like that at all. It's a blank page that you just color from top to bottom to make the image appear, all in one color (I think the pen can be either green or blue depending on which side you use.) Two bad things about this - first, it's terribly boring and second, the pen is guaranteed to run out of ink before you are done with the book.

A fun little children's activity book that is actually amusing in and of itself instead of simply capitalizing on the Harry Potter name. Eighteen or so page are covered with invisible images from the first book (the heroes being Sorted and learning to fly, for example) that are revealed when a marker is rubbed across them. At the end of the book are pages to be written on in invisible ink and later revealed. Cute, fun, and well-priced.

It's Harry's first year at Hogwarts and already he has got caught up in some mystery. Join in with Harry and the wonderful mystery of the Philosopher Stone. Find a three headed dog and heaps more suprises in this fasinating story.

It is a good couloring book and has cool pictures and a cool glowing wand!

I think this book is all right but is not enough but if like to color or Haryr Potter buy it!

The English version of this book is great. Unfortunately, the French translation is dreadful. The translator apparently became bored with the book and has left out ENTIRE PAGES of the story. It is probably the worst translation I have ever read of any book.

...The English version of the book is great... it's a treasure. The French version is pritty dreadful and yet boring. The translater did a poor job keeping the spirit & theme of Harry Potter alive. Will hope the other books are better portaid in the French version as they are in the English one.

This is one of the best books I have EVER read in my life! Harry Potter thinks that he is normal, but untill some strange things happen, and some sort of giant walks in his "hotel" room, Harry Potter realizes that he is not normal, he is a wizard. He finds out what and who really kills his parents, and finds some new friends at his new school. But then, they discover something is hidden at Hogwarts-his school-and tries to fugure it out, before time runs out. This book has it all, it is funny, full of mystery, and smart writing. It is so good, you feel just like you are there standing next to Harry Potter!

I'm glad not to be alone in seeing the Harry Potter books as only an empty marketing success and Zipes is acute when he comments on the banality of "Americanized" culture continued today by media giants like Disney. But Zipes is guilty of the same mamby pamby moralism that he criticizes in others, if you've read his Oxford Book of Fairy Tales you'll find that it's an unimaginative collection of innocuous speech codes and flaky feminist paranoia which is tedious and boring. Much of the "homogeneity" he complains about in popular culture comes from the dictates of "least objectionable programming" which advertisers like and is not unlike the political correctness found in elite Western institutions, where Zipes hails from obviously. J.K. Rowlings caricatures are embarrassingly "diverse" as if from a from a sensitivity training pogram which good leftists like Zipes should respect after all. Zipes reiterates all the liberal platitudes which have become suburban marketing clichés. Although he doesn't exactly advocate body piercing or tattoos. Not yet anyway. In short it's difficult to see where Zipes complaints lie since corporate progressives are pretty much dictating his own taste.

In this collection of essays based on speeches and lectures, the author - an admirer of Adorno - poses questions that should concern parents and teachers everywhere: Who decides what is "appropriate" literature for children? How are children introduced to this literature, and what do they make of it?

The first four chapters of the book, peppered with the somewhat off-putting jargon of literary theory, deplore the vertical integration of publishing empires, the marketing of books in association with toys, games, gadgets, T-shirts, etc., which results in "cultural homogenization" of the children. Adults decide "what's good for children" and use literature, among other tools, to manipulate and control them.

In chapters 5-9, the discussion gains momentum by using concrete examples of literature written for children. Changing attitudes toward Grimms' Fairy Tales and the "Struwwelpeter" stories of Heinrich Hoffmann have spawned multiple translations, bowdlerizations, dramatizations and parodies. The author shows how the "sexist" content of most fairy tales (the hero is almost always a male) has triggered feminist re-interpretations. Finally, there is no "authentic" version of fairy tales; all of them, including the ones collected by the Brothers Grimm, have been "contaminated", i.e. adapted and collated from multiple sources.

The final chapter on the phenomenal success of the Harry Potter books seems to be the one most American readers have focused on. It stresses the stereotypical aspects of the stories and the commercial hype that attended their release, and, again, their sexist nature - one of the author's pet peeves.

While some of these arguments seem excessively gloomy, all of them deserve our thoughtful consideration.

While I admire Zipes work in general, I think he's missed the point about Harry Potter. Zipes remarks that Harry is a classic boy scout, a straight arrow (...). He complains that the novels follow a tedious and grating fairy tale formula (...). The only difference between Harry and anyone else, according to Zipes, is that Harry has a lightning-shaped scar on his forehead (178).

Zipes misses the point on the importance of the scar - the scar is the central metaphor of the series and the importance of scars and wounding says something about our culture's adoption of this particular hero.