We sorted out several boxes containing books this afternoon, and in one of them was our Harry Potter collection! Like most of our belongings, it has been a very long time since we have seen our Harry Potter books, and I did take a moment to read the first and last pages of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (the best book, in my opinion) before we put the books away.
Did you know that several countries have a unique cover for each of the Harry Potter books? We first found this out when my grandparents visited us in California in 2000, and my grandmother said she was look for some American copies to take back home. See the differences between the British covers:
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Compared to the American covers:
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Quite a big difference there! Typing "harry potter covers around the world" into Google Images will show a multitude of the varied Harry Potter covers from the world over. I find it fascinating to look at them all and compare them.
Note: neither of the images in the links above are mine; they are merely two images that I linked to from here.
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