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Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban
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Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban Biding needs reglueing - 1999

by J.K. Rowling

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  • Title Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban
  • Author J.K. Rowling
  • Binding biding needs reglueing
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Fair
  • Pages 435
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Scholastic, New York
  • Date 1999
  • Features Dust Cover, Illustrated, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 202404041
  • ISBN 9780439136358
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: British

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About this book

“Harry Potter is a wizard. He is in his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. It's always a relief after summer with the Dursleys, however, Harry doesn't realize that this year will be just as eventful as the last two! The atmosphere at Hogwarts is tense. There's an escaped mass murderer on the loose, even the Muggles have been warned. The sinister prison guards of Azkaban have been called in to guard the school and Harry, Ron and Hermione rapidly discover why all witches and wizards live in fear of being sent to Azkaban. Lessons, however, must go on and there are lots of new subjects in the third year - Care of Magical Creatures and Divination among others. Plus the delights of Hogsmeade, the only village in the UK entirely populated by the magical community” (from Bloomsbury’s website).

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, written by world-renowned author JK Rowling, was first published as a hardcover on July 8th, 1999 by Bloomsbury Publishing. The third in the Harry Potter series, this novel follows Harry Potter and his friends on yet another thrilling adventure through the world of magic. The acclaimed novel has achieved many awards, was adapted into film in 2004, and has even been adapted into a video game.

Bram Stoker Award for Best Work for Young Readers (1999), Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (2000), Whitbread Award for Children's Literature, Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adolescent Literature (2008), Smarties Prize (1999) ...more Smarties Prize (1999), Costa Book Award (1999), Books I Loved Best Yearly (BILBY) Awards for Older Readers (2005), Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award (2004), Maine Student Book Award (2000), Golden Archer Award for Intermediate (2001), Indian Paintbrush Book Award (2004), Soaring Eagle Book Award (2002) Nestlé Smarties Book Prize 1998 Gold Medal 9–11 years, Scottish Arts Council Children’s Book Award 1999, FCBG Children’s Book Award 1998 Overall winner in Longer Novel Category, British Book Awards 1998 Children’s Book of the Year, North East Book Award 1999, North East Scotland Book Award 1998, The Bookseller Association / The Bookseller Author of the Year 1998, Whitaker’s Platinum Book Award 2001


Summary

During his third year at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter must confront the devious and dangerous wizard responsible for his parents’ deaths.

From the jacket flap

FOR TWELVE long years, the dread fortress of Azkaban held an infamous prisoner named Sirius Black. Convicted of killing thirteen people with a single curse, he was said to be the heir apparent to the Dark Lord, Voldemort.

Now he has escaped, leaving only two clues as to where he might be headed: Harry Potter's defeat of You-Know-Who was Black's downfall as well. And the Azkaban guards heard Black muttering in his sleep, "He's at Hogwarts ... he's at Hogwarts".

Harry Potter isn't safe, not even within the walls of his magical school, surrounded by his friends. Because on top of it all, there may well be a traitor in their midst.

First Edition Identification

First Edition of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was published 8 July 1999 (UK) by Bloomsbury in the United Kingdom. The illustrator for the UK edition was Cliff Wright (UK Edition). 10,000 copies of the first edition hardcover were printed. The number line for the first edition: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 and a block of misaligned text on page seven. The first hardcover print run was stopped mid-printing after it was discovered that 'Joanne Rowling' rather than 'J.K. Rowling' had been printed on the copyright page.

The First American Hardcover Edition of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was printed on September 8, 1999 by Scholastic. The illustrator was Mary GrandPre.  First US editions have a copyright page with the full number line (10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 9/9 0/0 1 2 3 4)


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Citations

  • ALA Best Books Young Adults, 01/01/2000, Page 1341
  • ALA Notable Children's Books, 01/01/2000, Page 1360
  • Beyond the Cover Author Interv, 07/01/2000, Page 18
  • Booklist, 09/01/1999, Page 127
  • Booklist Ed Choice Youth, 01/01/2000, Page 822
  • Hornbook Guide to Children, 07/01/1999, Page 86
  • Kirkus Review - Children, 09/15/1999, Page 1506
  • New York Times, 09/05/1999, Page 12
  • Publishers Weekly, 07/19/1999, Page 195
  • School Library Journal, 10/01/1999, Page 0
  • Time, 12/20/1999, Page 104

About the author

Mary GrandPr has illustrated more than twenty beautiful books, including The Noisy Paint Box by Barb Rosenstock, which received a Caldecott Honor; Cleonardo, the Little Inventor, of which she is also the author; and the original American editions of all seven Harry Potter novels. Her work has also appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly, and the Wall Street Journal, and her paintings and pastels have been shown in galleries across the United States. Ms. GrandPr lives in Sarasota, Florida, with her family.

J.K. Rowling is the author of the enduringly popular Harry Potter books. After the idea for Harry Potter came to her on a delayed train journey in 1990, she plotted out and started writing the series of seven books and the first was published as Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in the UK in 1997. The series took another ten years to complete, concluding in 2007 with the publication of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

To accompany the series, J.K. Rowling wrote three short companion volumes for charity, Quidditch Through the Agesand Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, in aid of Comic Relief and Lumos, and The Tales of Beedle the Bard, in aid of Lumos. She also collaborated on the writing of a stage play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which was published as a script book.

Her other books for children include the fairy tale The Ickabog and The Christmas Pig, which were published in 2020 and 2021 respectively and have also been bestsellers. She is also the author of books for adults, including a bestselling crime fiction series.

J.K. Rowling has received many awards and honors for her writing. She also supports a number of causes through her charitable trust Volant and is the founder of the children's charity Lumos.

To find out more about J.K. Rowling visit jkrowlingstories.com.

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