Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
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This issue’s cover is from The Hutchinson Treasury of Children’s Poetry (cover illustration by Peter Weevers). Edited by Alison Sage (who also edited The Hutchinson Treasury of Children’s Literature), this sumptuous anthology is loosely divided into four sections corresponding to age starting with nursery rhymes and first poems through to poems for older children and classic poetry. Poems from such modern poets as Roger McGough, Ted Hughes, Wendy Cope and Maya Angelou sit alongside poems by Longfellow, Robert Louis Stevenson, Shelley and Shakespeare. The anthology is illustrated in full colour and black and white. Newly commissioned illustrations from, for example, Quentin Blake, Shirley Hughes and Nicola Bayley are included alongside illustrations by Randolph Caldecott, Jessie Willcox Smith and Kate Greenaway. With such a comprehensive range of poems for 2-11 year olds and upwards, this is a wonderful family book.
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
The first Harry book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, has already gained many ardent fans and picked up a deserved Smarties Gold Award (1997). It told how a bemused Harry escaped his horrendous relatives to attend Hogwart's School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, and thereby began to fulfil his destiny as potentially one of the greatest wizards of all time. Even in his first year he managed to confront and defeat the greatly feared black wizard, Voldemort - and win! In this new title, Harry and his friends confront further evils and are sorely tested once more by a rejuvenated Voldemort intent on direst revenge against his new, young enemy - Harry Potter! These Harry books represent imaginative, complex, inventive yarning that compels and rewards the reader. Rowling pulls off the wizardly feat of convincing us that the utterly improbable is utterly probable; the humour, the dazzling, eccentric characters, the carefully timed suspense and cheerful, down-to-earth Harry, are cast into the enticing cauldron of a bright new talent on the children's literature scene.
