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Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets (Book 2) (Paperback)
by J.K. Rowling , Mary GrandPre (Illustrator)
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Author: J.K. Rowling , Mary GrandPre (Illustrator)
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Pub. in: August, 2000
ISBN: 0439064872
Pages: 352
Measurements: 7.6 x 5.3 x 0.9 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BC00222
Other information: Reprint edition
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- Awards & Credential -
A winner of the National Book Award
A winner of the Smarties Prize
A winner of the Children's Book Award
It is short-listed for the Carnegie Medal (the U.K. version of the Newbery Medal) |
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is another good book for Potter fans. For in Harry's 2nd year he will again face challenges, and danger, and risks to do what is right. It is the basic story of good vs. evil but it is still a wonderful book. The second Harry Potter book finds Harry and his friends Ron and Hermione back for their second year at Hogwarts School. Two new characters are introduced - a house elf named Dobby who wants to save Harry's life, and the new DADA teacher, Gilderoy Lockhart, a pompous braggart. In this book you will encounter new things like petrified people, a dueling club, an insane pompous new professor and a tree who hits back.
Filled with mystery, surprises, suspense, wonderful characters and imaginative detail, this book makes for excellent reading. J.K. Rowling's second book in the Harry Potter series steps it up a notch. The writing is more engaging for mixed age audiences, meaning it's the perfect book to read aloud together as a family. In addition, the plot has a gripping effect that mere magic alone can't account for. It’s the creative muse that drives this one along, and Rowling has done a smashing job this time. Otherwise, Harry Potter is more nuanced between a battle of good and evil. And like all good battles between the polarized moral compasses, we see shades of black and white, and marker lines that find you pitched on one side or the other. Harry Potter captures all that is magical, quirky, and wondrous in childhood and Rowling's writing reaches out to all ages to remind them of that time. She does so, in such a way, that the pages keep turning effortlessly and before you know it, you've reached a temporary end, satisfiedly and entertainingly.
Target readers:
Readers of all ages
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J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter's magic has touched a huge audience of all ages all over the world. In America, there are nearly 80 million books in print, and each title has been on the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists. The fifth title, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, has already broken records with its first print run of 6.8 million copies and a second print run of an additional 1.7 million copies, a figure unprecedented for any book. J. K. Rowling has won the Hugo Award, the Bram Stoker Award, the Whitbread Award for Best Children's Book, a special commendation for the Anne Spencer Lindbergh Prize, and a special certificate for being a three-year winner of the Smarties Prize, as well as many other honors. She has been a featured guest on "60 Minutes," "The Today Show," and "Larry King Live." Rowling has also been named an Officer of the British Empire. Rowling first thought of Harry while riding a train back in 1990. "Harry just strolled into my head fully formed." She worked on the book for several years, finding quiet moments while her daughter napped. Several publishers turned down the finished manuscript before one took interest. In 1998, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone was published in the United States, kicking off Harry-mania. Suddenly, kids were reading again, and their parents wanted to read the same books! The second and third books were published in the spring and fall of 1999. On July 8, 2000, the release of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire became a major celebration, with bookstore events occurring at midnight nationwide. The book sold an unprecedented three million copies in the first 48 hours of release and according to Publishers Weekly is "the fastest-selling book in history." Warner Bros. enjoys certain rights in respect to all the Harry Potter books and has exercised its option to create films on all of those that have been published to date; Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets have each been released to critical praise and record-setting box-office success. With over 170 million books sold, the books have been translated into 55 languages and distributed in over 200 countries. Each of the first four books are currently on bestseller lists in the United States, Britain, and around the globe. Joanne Rowling was born in Chipping Sodbury near Bristol, England. After she graduated from Exeter University, she found work as a secretary, and later spent time teaching English in Portugal before moving to Edinburgh, Scotland, with her daughter. She currently resides in Scotland with her husband and two children.
Mary GrandPre: Educated at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Mary GrandPre began her career as a conceptual illustrator for local editorial clients. Continually experimenting with media, Mary underwent many artistic changes in her expressive visual form. Her concerns for light, color, drawing, and design came together in evocative, ethereal pastel paintings evolving toward a style she now calls "soft geometry". Mary's new work attracted corporate advertising and editorial clients. Some of the include: Ogilvy & Mather, BBD&O, Whittle Communications, The Richards Group, Neenah Paper, Atlantic Monthly Magazine, Random House, Berkley, Penguin, Dell and McGraw Hill publishers. Recently, she was featured on the cover of Time Magazine for her work with the Harry Potter Series and also worked as a visionary in the environment/scenery development in DreamWorks animated film Antz. Mary's work has received national recognition through awards received from: The Society of Illustrators, Communication Arts, Graphis, Print and Art Direction. Her work was chosen among thousands of illustrators to be on the cover of Showcase 16, and an article was written about her "conceptual editorial assignments" in Step-by-Step Graphics. Communications Arts Magazine has also done a "career retrospective" article in their January/February 200 edition. Additionally, Mary has now illustrated six beautiful children's books and is at work on the seventh. Her book illustration possesses highly personalized lyrical story interpretations and has received very favorable reviews in the national press. It is unusual for an illustrator to work successfully in so many genres of illustration at one time, from advertising and corporate to editorial and children's books. Her reputation is now world renown for her delightfully stunning illustrations.
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The Dursleys were so mean that hideous that summer that all Harry Potter wanted was to get back to the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. But just as he's packing his bags, Harry receives a warning from a strange, impish creature named Dobby who says that if Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts, disaster will strike. And strike it does. For in Harry's second year at Hogwarts, fresh torments and horrors arise, including an outrageously stuck-up new professor, Gilderoy Lockheart, a spirit named Moaning Myrtle who haunts the girls' bathroom, and the unwanted attentions of Ron Weasley's younger sister, Ginny. But each of these seems minor annoyances when the real trouble begins, and someone-or something-starts turning Hogwarts students to stone. Could it be Draco Malfoy, a more poisonous rival than ever? Could it possibly be Hagrid, whose mysterious past is finally told? Or could it be the one everyone at Hogwarts most suspects... Harry Potter himself?
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A. Shah (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-27 00:00>
Harry Potter is a great book for kids of all ages. In this story, Harry Potter, a 12-year-oldwozard, is in his second year at school. Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is a great place to keep things safe, but not safe enough to keep Harry safe this year. During his summer holidays, Harry was visited by a strange elf-like creature who told him that he should not go back to Hogwarts this year. Harry does not trust the elf, and he goes back to his school. This is when Harry realizes that the elf was right. The Chamber of Secrets is opened, and Muggle-borns everywhere are getting attacked. It is up to young Harry to save the school when half of the school believes that he is the one attacking everyone. Read the story to find out what happens next. I liked a lot of things from this book. The author does a great job of depicting what the basilisk looks like. She writes, "...enormous serpent, bright, poisonous green, thick as an oak trunk..." Every time that I read this passage, I always get really scared. I can picture the basilisk clearly in my mind. The author does a great job of describing in every book of hers that I have ever read. I think that is why everyone likes her books so much. I didn't really like one of the parts from the story. The part that I didn't like is the whole plot. The story sometimes got a little confusing at some times. I also didn't like the fact that Ginny had to be taken into the Chamber of Secrets. This is because Harry Potter acted all noble and went into the Chamber himself. Harry could have died in there, and then there would not have been more to the series. My favorite part in the book was when Professor Lockhart took all the bones out of Harry's arm after the match with the rogue Bludger. I really like this part because I think it is really funny. If someone had taken all the bones out of my arm, I would probably just sit there and laugh it off. Harry and his fans/followers, instead, got really mad about it all. That was my favorite part in the whole a story. I really like the book Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. |
Kaitlyn Denver (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-27 00:00>
The book Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling is a book put together with the use of the literary device of irony. It is said that Rowling puts together an excellent book thorough the use of the device of irony. Much of the book would have to be written differently if irony was not included. For instance throughout the book students at Hogwarts are petrified due to the sight of the "monster", later known as the basilisk, hidden in the chamber of secrets. Almost every time this takes place Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger and Harry Potter are found at the scene first. Also it just happened to work out that the Defense against the Dark Arts teacher Gilderoy Lockhart is a fake and can't perform magic. Therefore Ron and Harry have to step up and take the lead in finding Ginny Weasley, Ron's younger sister who was captured by Tom Riddle. Although irony made it possible for every thing to work in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, it is said that there is too much. Everything in the book keeps happening because Harry, Ron, and Hermione happen to be there. Then it is argued as mentioned before the book would not have been able to flow with out the literary device. So all in all Rowling's book was made possible because of irony. |
A reader (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-27 00:00>
Harry Potter and the Chamber of secrets is definitely fully rated five stars. It became one of my favorite books. The first book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, let you hanging at the end and it made you want to read the next book. And that's what I just did. This second book finished the ending to the first and I thought was a lot better than the first. This book is so interesting and well written that I found myself reading this book in two days. I am not the type who likes to read a lot, but this book was so excellent and well written that I saw the story being played in my head like a movie. It was in impossible to put it down. I have to say that my favorite part of the book was the climax where Harry enters the Chamber of Secrets. He fights enormous serpent snake, which they call the Basilisk that was under control of a dark wizard. Could it be possible for a young boy to kill and survive this horrible creature? I don't want to spoil the ending to some of the people who haven't read it yet. If you're looking for a book that is thrilling and suspenseful, then I highly recommend picking it up and reading this wonderful novel. |
Lonnie (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-27 00:00>
This story is much easier to read compared to the first Harry Potter, as readers are now familiar with Rowling's built-from-scratch fantasy. Further, while she has made the story significantly more complex than the first novel by introducing the Chamber of Secrets and the histories of various characters, the clarity of her writing keep the reader on track throughout the story. Rowling even manages to include a number of bizarre incidents, assuming that anything more than witches and wizards would be bizarre. Imagine, for example, asking a ghost how they died. Rowling keeps her fantasy fresh in this second story with much promise for the following novels. For those who can read this story as a fantasy, they will find the story creative and interesting. I recommend this book for everyone from age 8 to adult, and even some younger children may be able to handle the story. |
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