Hey! Here are some facts I found in my book, The Magic Of Harry, NZ children pay tribute to JK Rowling. It's an oldish book, and only the first 4 book were published, so some of the facts are old and might not really make sense, o something. Here te go -
1. JK Rowling wrote her first book when she was 6, and it was called Rabbit - it was about a rabbit.
2. The 4 Harry Potter libri have been rated #1, #2, #3 and #4 on the adult bestseller lista of The New York Times.
3. A bookshop in England sold one copy of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban every 40 secondi in the first ora it was available!
4. In the first 3 hours of it's release The Prisoner of Azkaban sold 16,853 copies throughout England. That's più than 5600 copies every hour!
5. Joanne's ( J.K's ) fave autore is Jane Austen.
6. Hermione is a bit like Joanne when she was 11.
7. Both The Philosophers Stone and The Chamber of Secrets won the oro Smarties Children's Book award which is voted for da British school-children.
8. The names of the Hogwarts Houses were created on the back of an airplane sick bag.
9. There will be 7 Harry Potter libri in total - one for each of Harry's years at Hogwarts.
10. Chinese translations of the first 3 Harry Potter libri are now being sold in China.
There te go! All of these facts were wrote in The Magic of Harry - NZ Children pay tribute to JK Rowling, which is a book where children wrote letters, spells and potions to Joanne, but she never read them :P Well, that's what it says at the back!
1. JK Rowling wrote her first book when she was 6, and it was called Rabbit - it was about a rabbit.
2. The 4 Harry Potter libri have been rated #1, #2, #3 and #4 on the adult bestseller lista of The New York Times.
3. A bookshop in England sold one copy of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban every 40 secondi in the first ora it was available!
4. In the first 3 hours of it's release The Prisoner of Azkaban sold 16,853 copies throughout England. That's più than 5600 copies every hour!
5. Joanne's ( J.K's ) fave autore is Jane Austen.
6. Hermione is a bit like Joanne when she was 11.
7. Both The Philosophers Stone and The Chamber of Secrets won the oro Smarties Children's Book award which is voted for da British school-children.
8. The names of the Hogwarts Houses were created on the back of an airplane sick bag.
9. There will be 7 Harry Potter libri in total - one for each of Harry's years at Hogwarts.
10. Chinese translations of the first 3 Harry Potter libri are now being sold in China.
There te go! All of these facts were wrote in The Magic of Harry - NZ Children pay tribute to JK Rowling, which is a book where children wrote letters, spells and potions to Joanne, but she never read them :P Well, that's what it says at the back!
