- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: St Martin's Press; First Edition edition (16 Dec 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 031226481X
- ISBN-13: 978-0312264819
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 13.7 x 0.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 985,535 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Harry Potter is possibly the most famous boy in the world, and just about everyone has an opinion on JK Rowling's hero. But at the end of the day the only opinions that really count are those of the kids who devour every word of every book, and in We Love Harry Potter, an unauthorised tribute to the legendary boy-wizard, their cup of opinions runneth over.
From the reasons why they love Harry's adventures to thorough explanations of how to play Quidditch, this book is packed with thoughts from the people who really matter: the children. (Age 9 and over) --Susan Harrison
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Harry Potter-by now the name is surely as magical to you as it is to the millions of others who are devouring the books in J.K. Rowling's awesome series. Do you want to find out what others are saying about how they'd like to fly on a hippogriff or raise a pet dragon? What it would be like if they were students at Hogwarts and played on a Quidditch team? Their opininons on what really happened to Hary's parents? Read letters kids have written to Harry Potter, Hagrid, Hermione, and many ot the books' other unforgettable characters. Like the Harry Potter books themselves, "We Love Harry Potter!" is a treat for all ages!
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
I borrowed this from a friend. I dissagree with the last two reviews mainly on the grounds that the letters are written by children and should be taken as such. Children do repeat themselves over and over and thats the case be it verbally or when they write letters. Why do they need to have demonstrated they understood the books? Whats to be understood? That they enjoyed the books enough to write about them is surely enough? I rated this book one star purely because it's not my cup of tea as reading matter, it's not a reflection on the letters written in it by the children.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
When someone gave me that book to read, I thought it would be fun to see what children think of Harry Potter, to see how his story fuels their imagination. Instead, all I found was incomprehensible gibberish (and proof that few of those children have really understood the Harry Potter stories), and boring and pointless comments like "I love Harry. I hate So-and-so." over and over again. Any guestbook on any Harry Potter website provides more insight into children's thoughts than Mrs. Moore's book. Good thing I didn't spend any money on it - the waste of time was bad enough.
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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Shows less respect than those who wanted to ban the book.
28 Jan 2001
I bought this book out of optimism, because I thought that anything praising Harry Potter would be relatively harmless. When I ordered the fourth instalment from a shop, I was nearly made to buy it again. Thankfully, I didn't - once was enough.
What is the point of this book? Reading this repeatedly is enough to put you off Harry Potter. The book itself is divided into sections, as follows:
1. The children's opinions on the series. Most of the children made mistakes that showed how little they had understood of the Harry Potter books, such as talking about "Madam Pooch", and asking, "I don't see why Mrs Norris had to die..." when she didn't. The information that was correct was usually unhelpful and unnecessary. Even people who haven't read the books have probably gathered by now that Harry is, well, the goodie. They even went so far as to tell us personal information about their pets: "I have a pet frog whom I keep in a cage and feed crickets." Ms Moore didn't help, either; she regularly wrote unnecessary columns between the letters to talk about such irrelevant matters as Thanksgiving dinner and Valentine's Day.
There were "letters" to Hogwarts, there was a trivial trivia quiz and there was even an anagram puzzle in which about half the words were related to wizardry. There were comments about how Quidditch could be played on the ground, or with scrap metal claws (enough said), and even some pointless recipes - or, in some cases, non-recipes. A quote: "Last year I mad a restaurant called Slimy Louie's which served Road Kill Stew and Rat-tat-tooy. I didn't include Stuffed Owl because you wouldn't want to eat Hedwig or Errol." I won't make any more comments. I don't think they're needed. This material is normally channelled into amateur websites, not books.
On the back you will read: "Do you want to find out what others have said about how they'd like to fly on a hippogriff or raise a pet dragon?" Think about this. Do you? As other reviewers have commented, there's nothing new to be gained from this book. However, I have thought of one use for this book. It would be superb, all 100 or so pages of it, as kindling for a bonfire. And that's what I'm going to use my copy as.
21 of 22 people found the following review helpful
This is just pointless.
23 Aug 2000
I wish they WOULDN'T tell us why they love Harry Potter... or, if they must insist on such behavior, then I secondly wish that they would say something other than "I love Harry; I hate Voldemort" until they are blue in the face. The book's just a gimmick to make money off of Harry's fame, so don't buy into it (literally). There's nothing new to be gleaned from this unless one is specifically looking for a bunch of monotonous 8-year-old praise.
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Most disappointing, I thought it would be so much better.
7 Mar 2001
In this collection, children talked about the Harry Potter books. Unfortunately, the entire first half of this book was endless reviews of the books, many of which were wrong and/or repititious. I was bored out of my mind by these reviews, which told the storyline but not what the children enjoyed about the books, and HELLO, we already KNOW the storylines, right? The last part was some letters and recipes and other things, and overall the title "We love Harry Potter; WE'LL TELL YOU WHY" is completely false. I wish it had been thought out more and better edited.
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