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...days, but kids kept borrowing stools and climbing in for a peek, so it was hidden away. And on the afternoon of July 8, stores around Britain were packed with children waiting for it. No, not for the newest set of Pokemon trading cards, but for a book: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, the third installment of J.K. Rowling's entrancing magical mystery tales about a boy who is really a wizard. At exactly 3:45 p.m.--the moment of the book's eagerly awaited release, timed to the end of the school day--"there was a pause...
Across the Atlantic, meanwhile, The Prisoner of Azkaban is not due to come out until Sept. 8, and kids are going berserk. It's not enough that there are more than 1.7 million copies of the first two books, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, in print in the U.S.; young readers want the new one, and they want it now. In the Henderson-Nold household in Berkeley, Calif., Nick, 12, and Will, 10, were so desperate for the next fix that Nick and his mother, Susan Henderson, went straight...
...Scholastic is bowing to copyright laws that permit the export of one copy per customer "for personal use." Says Arthur Levine, the series' U.S. editor: "It's not an issue I even want to talk about." In the future, though, he'll be taking no chances: the fourth Harry Potter will be released simultaneously in Britain and America next year...
Every June my daughter's school distributes an ambitious list of books that students in each grade are required to read over the summer. She and I were thrilled to see that this year's titles include Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, by J.K. Rowling, sequel to last year's sensational Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. So last week we raced to our favorite bookstore to snap up a copy. As we drove home, my daughter cracked it open and started reading aloud. She laughed. She chortled. She did an English accent. And I enjoyed...
...best thing about the book group for my daughter and me is the pleasure of reading the same book at the same time. This spring we discovered Harry Potter together--reading back and forth from our one copy. I hadn't really shared a book with her since those early days, when I was the reluctant performer in our nightly reading ritual. Finally my daughter has discovered the interior joy of reading. And I'm thankful that she's passed...