{"id":3959,"date":"2009-07-27T06:00:58","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T12:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=3959"},"modified":"2009-07-22T14:06:06","modified_gmt":"2009-07-22T20:06:06","slug":"harry-mania-rowlings-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/harry-mania-rowlings-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Mania \/ Rowling’s Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the recent movie release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, fans who are still hungry for more may want to consider\u00a0some of the supplementary materials that have been inspired by this popular series.<\/p>\n

\"letters<\/a> \"seven\"<\/a> \"rowling\"<\/p>\n

One cute one\u00a0is Kids’ Letters to Harry Potter from Around the World<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 In this\u00a0collection compiled by Bill Adler, you’ll find\u00a0conversational excerpts such as “The Dementors almost got me two days ago.”\u00a0 Or, as only a child would ask, “What is Snape like?\u00a0 Why doesn’t Snape like you?”<\/p>\n

There’s also a wealth of critical analyses, including <\/a>7<\/a> <\/em><\/strong>by Frederick Zimmerman.\u00a0 Though it weirdly but proudly proclaims to be ‘unofficial and unathorized,”\u00a0these books\u00a0can still be especially helpful if you’re in a Harry Potter book club.\u00a0 This one gives\u00a0a chapter by chapter inspection as well as “Points to Ponder.”<\/p>\n

Finally, your study is never truly complete until you read at least one biography of J. K. Rowling.\u00a0 Her rags to riches story is a treat for any aspiring author, struggling or not.\u00a0 Now a multi-millionare, when Rowling first started writing she was living on public assistance in an apartment without heat.\u00a0 Plus, she didn’t even have enough money to photocopy her book before\u00a0submitting it to a publisher.\u00a0 There are biographies available in both the adult and children’s sections, but one\u00a0easy read is Meet J.K. Rowling<\/em><\/strong><\/a> by S. Ward.\u00a0 What better way to celebrate her birthday (and of course, Harry’s)\u00a0come July 31st?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the recent movie release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, fans who are still hungry for more may want to consider\u00a0some of the supplementary materials that have been inspired by this popular series. One cute one\u00a0is Kids’ Letters to Harry Potter from Around the World.\u00a0 In this\u00a0collection compiled[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[706,742,673,744],"class_list":["post-3959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-birthday","tag-fantasy","tag-harry-potter","tag-jk-rowling"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-11R","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3959"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3988,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3959\/revisions\/3988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}