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, or something. Here you 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 books have been rated #1, #2, #3 and #4 on the adult bestseller listahan of The New York Times.
3. A bookshop in England sold one copy of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban every 40 segundos in the first oras 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 madami than 5600 copies every hour!
5. Joanne's ( J.K's ) fave may-akda 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 ginto Smarties Children's Book award which is voted for sa pamamagitan ng 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 books in total - one for each of Harry's years at Hogwarts.
10. Chinese translations of the first 3 Harry Potter books are now being sold in China.
There you 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 books have been rated #1, #2, #3 and #4 on the adult bestseller listahan of The New York Times.
3. A bookshop in England sold one copy of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban every 40 segundos in the first oras 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 madami than 5600 copies every hour!
5. Joanne's ( J.K's ) fave may-akda 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 ginto Smarties Children's Book award which is voted for sa pamamagitan ng 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 books in total - one for each of Harry's years at Hogwarts.
10. Chinese translations of the first 3 Harry Potter books are now being sold in China.
There you 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!
