This is Lily. And this week, we continue going through our bookshelves to show off our new books! And this is only a small selection of what we've gotten this summer. We've been asking for modern books (not that McGuffey readers from 1880 are bad or anything...just very very dated) for ages now, and we finally have the start of a rather nice YA fantasy collection. Still need to get some scifi books though.
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| Back covers |
But first, the books that most people have come to know and love: Harry Potter. All 7 books, with the Bloomsbury covers. They're all little hardcovers, with a dust jacket. The first two books are 24 pages, the third is 32 pages, and the last 4 are 48 pages. To be more realistic, the last 4 should have probably been 96 pages each, but the human only has so much patience for making tiny books, and 48 pages a book is the limit before she gets sick of it. But it's enough to give an impression of a difference in book length.
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| Spines |
As usual, all the books have text on the inside, in this case, usually the first chapter or a portion of the first chapter. No spoilers, really.
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| Interiors of books 1-4 |
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| Interiors of books 5-7 |
Because everyone needs back-to-school reading (we're all out of school. In fact, we'll all be getting a new apartment by Christmas.) here's a little something fun:
I just realized that the first book has been called Harry Potter and the Philospher's Stone AND Harry Potter and the SORCERER'S Stone. Am I wrong?
ReplyDeleteThe British version is 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'. The publishers assumed Americans wouldn't know what the Philosopher's Stone was, so they changed the title of the US edition to 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone'.
Deletewe dumb Americans... :) :) That's Hilarious!!
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