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2. Harry Potter - Wikipedia

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   In 2000, shortly before the publication of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the previous three Harry Potter books topped The New York Times fiction best-seller list and a third of the entries were children's books. The newspaper created a new children's section covering children's books, including both fiction and non-fiction, and initially ...

3. List of awards and nominations received by J. K. Rowling

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   In 2000 the third novel, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, was nominated for an adult award – the Whitbread Book of the Year – where it competed against a book by a Nobel prize laureate (Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf). The award body gave Rowling the children's prize instead (worth half the cash amount); some scholars view ...

4. The Secret of Platform 13 - Wikipedia

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   The Secret of Platform 13 is a children's novel by Eva Ibbotson, and illustrated by Sue Porter, first published in 1994. The book has gained extra significance as many readers find it similar to the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling, as the first book of that series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was published in 1997, three years ...

5. The British publisher behind the ‘Harry Potter ... - AOL

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   For instance, last year the first Harry Potter was the U.K.’s No. 1 bestseller in children’s books for the first time since 2002. The London-listed company has also expanded the franchise with ...

6. Harry Potter (character) - Wikipedia

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   Harry James Potter is a fictional character and the titular protagonist in J. K. Rowling 's series of eponymous novels. The majority of the books' plot covers seven years in the life of the orphan Harry, who, on his eleventh birthday, learns he is a wizard. Thus, he attends Hogwarts to practise magic under the guidance of the kindly headmaster ...

7. National Book Awards Children's Book of the Year - Wikipedia

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   The British Illustrated Children's Book of the Year Award was given annually to illustrated works of children's literature as part of the British Book Awards. It was established in 1991 and awarded for the last time in 1995. For the 1996 British Book Awards both it and the Children's Author of the Year award were replaced by the Children's Book ...