About the Book
After bottling up his magical powers for a lifetime, Harry finally feels like a normal kid when he gets accepted to go to Hogwarts. He is the boy who lived: the only person to have ever survived a killing curse inflicted by the evil Lord Voldemort, who launched a brutal takeover of the Wizarding world, only to vanish after failing to kill Harry. The first in the series of Harry Potter books, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is full of sympathetic characters and wildly imaginative situations. This book sets the stage for many high-stakes adventures to come.
About the Author
The person who created some of the most iconic characters in the history of children’s literature, JK Rowling was a major part of all of our childhoods. A British novelist, philanthropist, film producer, television producer and screenwriter, best known for writing the Harry Potter fantasy series, she has won multiple awards and sold more than 500 million copies. She conceived the idea for the Harry Potter series while on a delayed train from Manchester to London in 1990. Rowling went from living on state benefits to being the world’s first billionaire author. She lost her billionaire status after giving away much of her earnings to charity but she still remains one of the wealthiest people in the world.
- Language: English
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Genre: Juvenile Fiction
- ISBN: 9781408855652, 1408855658
- Edition: 1, 2014
- Pages: 352
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- J.K. Rowling is the author of the enduringly popular Harry Potter series, as well as several stand-alone novels and a bestselling crime fiction series. After the idea for Harry Potter came to her on a delayed train journey in 1990, she plotted out and started writing the series of seven books and the first, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, was published in the UK in 1997. The series took another ten years to complete, concluding in 2007 with the publication of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Smash hit movie adaptations followed. The Harry Potter books have now sold over 600 million copies worldwide in 85 languages and been listened to as audiobooks for over one billion hours. To accompany the series, J.K. Rowling wrote three short companion volumes for charity: Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, in aid of Comic Relief and Lumos, and The Tales of Beedle the Bard, in aid of Lumos. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them went on to inspire a new series of films featuring Magizoologist Newt Scamander. Harry’s story as a grown-up was continued in a stage play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which J.K. Rowling wrote with playwright Jack Thorne and director John Tiffany, and which is now playing in multiple locations around the world. In 2020, she returned to publishing for younger children with the fairy tale The Ickabog, the royalties from which she donated to her charitable trust, Volant, to help charities working to alleviate the social effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Her latest children’s novel, The Christmas Pig, was published in 2021. J.K. Rowling has received many awards and honours for her writing, including the OBE and Companion of Honour, the Hans Christian Andersen Award and a Blue Peter Gold Badge. She supports a wide number of humanitarian causes through Volant, and is the founder of the international children’s care reform charity Lumos. J.K. Rowling lives in Scotland with her family.
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