Harry Potter ja tarkade kivi - Joanne Kathleen Rowling

Joanne Rowling is probably the most popular children's author today. Her Harry Potter series has become a phenomenon in its own right. Parents queue up in the evening to get their hands on a new book because their children can't wait until morning.
In the first book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry does not yet know that he is a wizard and that his deceased mother and father were also wizards. He does not know spells, has never been to a dragon hatching or worn an invisibility cloak. He has only experienced a miserable life with his terrible aunt and uncle and their brutal son Dudley, who wants nothing to do with magic. Harry lives in a tiny storage room under the stairs and has not celebrated his birthday in eleven years.
But all that changes when an owl brings him a mysterious letter inviting Harry to a magical place, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where Harry will find friends, learn magic in all its forms, but also face his most fearsome enemy. More than Harry's own fate depends on this encounter...

JK Rowling was a single mother living on unemployment benefits when she wrote the beginning of “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” while sitting in a café. As in a true Cinderella story, several publishers rejected her manuscript and probably now bitterly regret it. Harry Potter has become the most popular character in recent times, and his adventures are followed with interest by both old and young. Official recognition has also come. “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” won the British Book Award for Children’s Literature and the Smarties Award.
But the Harry Potter adventures continue...

Original title: Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone

English children's literature, fantasy novels