This post was suggested by the final inside page, 23,
of next Sunday's New York Times Book Review ,
"Memorabilia/ Happy 20th Anniversary, Harry Potter."
From VOA Learning English, June 26, 2017 —
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J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Books . . . . " J.K. Rowling’s first book about Harry and his friends at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry was released on June 26, 1997. The publisher, Bloomsbury, only released 500 copies to stores in Britain and sent 500 to British libraries. Now, thanks to 450 million more copies of the first book and six others, Harry Potter and his friends are known around the world. Adults and children loved the books. But 12 publishers rejected the first one, known in many countries as 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.' " . . . . |
See as well this journal on June 26, 2017 in
posts now tagged Ron Shaw In Memoriam.