Review: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter #2) by J.K. Rowling (Author) & Jim Kay (Illustrator)

Thursday, February 13, 2020


Title: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Series: Harry Potter, #2

Author: J.K. Rowling (Author) & Jim Kay (Illustrator)

Genre: Middle-Grade>Young Adult, Fantasy, Fiction

Publication Date: October 4th, 2016 by Arthur A. Levine Books

Format: Hardcover

Source: Library


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Prepare to be spellbound by Jim Kay’s dazzling full-colour illustrations in this stunning new edition of J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Breathtaking scenes, dark themes and unforgettable characters – including Dobby and Gilderoy Lockhart – await inside this fully illustrated edition. With paint, pencil and pixels, award-winning illustrator Jim Kay conjures the wizarding world as we have never seen it before. Fizzing with magic and brimming with humour, this inspired reimagining will captivate fans and new readers alike, as Harry and his friends, now in their second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, seek out a legendary chamber and the deadly secret that lies at its heart …





What can I say about the second Illustrated book of the Harry Potter series is that I so loved and enjoyed reading and seeing all the beautiful Illustration in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. As I say before I am re-reading all the Harry Potter books in Illustration book format and I am really happy I decided to re-read this amazing and famous series again. I will tell you all the truth I don't remember a lot about each book of the Harry Potter books because it's been 8 years since I read the whole series. But reading Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets brought so many nostalgic memories when I first read this book and I love re-reading every moment and scenes that I remember and some I forgot.


 Also, this book brought out so many excitement, joys, and happiness while reading Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets I had so much fun re-reading Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Now I don't want to go into any details about this book because I think everybody knows what the Harry Potter series is about, but I will say if you have not read the Illustrated Harry Potter series please, please, please check out the Illustrated Harry Potter series. 


The Illustration is absolutely amazing and so gorgeous. I just love seeing the different and gorgeous Illustration in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. To me, each Illustration brought out each character beautifully. I am just glad and happy I started re-reading the Harry Potter series because this series is one of my all-time favorite book series ever and the huge Harry Potter fandom and hype of this series and it is so worth it. I love being in the fandom as well and before yes ask yes I did watch all the Harry Potter films and love and enjoyed watching all of the films. Now I am in the middle of re-reading Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and I can tell you I am also loving and enjoying reading Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban so far. All and all I can't wait to continue reading more Illustrated Harry Potter series!

 
 
 
 
 

 


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J.K. Rowling (Author)
See also: Robert Galbraith
Although she writes under the pen name J.K. Rowling, pronounced like rolling, her name when her first Harry Potter book was published was simply Joanne Rowling. Anticipating that the target audience of young boys might not want to read a book written by a woman, her publishers demanded that she use two initials, rather than her full name. As she had no middle name, she chose K as the second initial of her pen name, from her paternal grandmother Kathleen Ada Bulgen Rowling. She calls herself Jo and has said, "No one ever called me 'Joanne' when I was young, unless they were angry." Following her marriage, she has sometimes used the name Joanne Murray when conducting personal business. During the Leveson Inquiry she gave evidence under the name of Joanne Kathleen Rowling. In a 2012 interview, Rowling noted that she no longer cared that people pronounced her name incorrectly.

Rowling was born to Peter James Rowling, a Rolls-Royce aircraft engineer, and Anne Rowling (née Volant), on 31 July 1965 in Yate, Gloucestershire, England, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Bristol. Her mother Anne was half-French and half-Scottish. Her parents first met on a train departing from King's Cross Station bound for Arbroath in 1964. They married on 14 March 1965. Her mother's maternal grandfather, Dugald Campbell, was born in Lamlash on the Isle of Arran. Her mother's paternal grandfather, Louis Volant, was awarded the Croix de Guerre for exceptional bravery in defending the village of Courcelles-le-Comte during the First World War.

Rowling's sister Dianne was born at their home when Rowling was 23 months old. The family moved to the nearby village Winterbourne when Rowling was four. She attended St Michael's Primary School, a school founded by abolitionist William Wilberforce and education reformer Hannah More. Her headmaster at St Michael's, Alfred Dunn, has been suggested as the inspiration for the Harry Potter headmaster Albus Dumbledore.

As a child, Rowling often wrote fantasy stories, which she would usually then read to her sister. She recalls that: "I can still remember me telling her a story in which she fell down a rabbit hole and was fed strawberries by the rabbit family inside it. Certainly the first story I ever wrote down (when I was five or six) was about a rabbit called Rabbit. He got the measles and was visited by his friends, including a giant bee called Miss Bee." At the age of nine, Rowling moved to Church Cottage in the Gloucestershire village of Tutshill, close to Chepstow, Wales. When she was a young teenager, her great aunt, who Rowling said "taught classics and approved of a thirst for knowledge, even of a questionable kind," gave her a very old copy of Jessica Mitford's autobiography, Hons and Rebels. Mitford became Rowling's heroine, and Rowling subsequently read all of her books.

Rowling has said of her teenage years, in an interview with The New Yorker, "I wasn’t particularly happy. I think it’s a dreadful time of life." She had a difficult homelife; her mother was ill and she had a difficult relationship with her father (she is no longer on speaking terms with him). She attended secondary school at Wyedean School and College, where her mother had worked as a technician in the science department. Rowling said of her adolescence, "Hermione [a bookish, know-it-all Harry Potter character] is loosely based on me. She's a caricature of me when I was eleven, which I'm not particularly proud of." Steve Eddy, who taught Rowling English when she first arrived, remembers her as "not exceptional" but "one of a group of girls who were bright, and quite good at English." Sean Harris, her best friend in the Upper Sixth owned a turquoise Ford Anglia, which she says inspired the one in her books.



Jim Kay (Illustrator)

Jim Kay studied illustration and worked in the archives of the Tate Gallery and the Kew Royal Botanic Gardens, two experiences that heavily influence his work. His images for A MONSTER CALLS use everything from beetles to breadboards to create interesting marks and textures. Jim Kay lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.
 


20 comments:

  1. I am DYING to get my hands on the illustrated editions.

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    1. Yes all the ones that I have read so far are absolutely fantastic and I love reading each book, thank you so much for stopping by my book blog my friend.

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  2. I've only read the first illustrated one, but I have this one and need to get to it!

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    1. I am currently reading the third book and I am falling in love again re-reading the Harry Potter series, thank you so much for stopping by my book blog my friend.

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  3. I must confess I have never read Harry Potter, nor have I watched the movies.

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    1. That's it totally ok if you haven't read the Harry Potter series I know some readers friends of my that have not read this series or watch the films neither, thank you so much for stopping by my book blog my friend.

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  4. I need to add this tomy HP collection!

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    1. They all are absolutely amazing illustrated books that I so love and enjoy re-reading again, thank you so much for stopping by my blog my friend.

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  5. I don't typically read this genre but I adored all the Harry Potter books

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    1. Yes I really love and enjoy reading this series as well when I first read it back in 2012, thank you so much for stopping by my book blog my friend.

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  6. I have all the illustrated Harry Potter books (that have been released) but I haven't read any of them, they just sit on my shelves looking pretty. Great review.

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    1. Thank you I just love re-reading all the Illustrated Harry Potter books that have came out already, thank you so much for stopping by my book blog my friend.

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  7. I am glad you got the opportunity to read the illustrated version.

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    1. Thank you and thank you so much for stopping by my book blog my friend.

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  8. I have never read the Harry Potter books. I need to change that.

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    1. It really is an amazing and fantastic book series that I absolutely love and enjoy so much, I hope you do enjoy reading this series when you get the chance to read it. Thank you so much for stopping by my book blog my friend.

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  9. I need to check out my illustrated copies soon!!! <3 Awesome review!

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    1. The Harry Potter illustrated books are absolutely fantastic with gorgeous illustrations which I so love and enjoy re-reading so much. Thank you so much for stopping by my book blog my friend.

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  10. The artwork on that cover is adorable. Great review!

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    1. Thank you the illustration are absolutely gorgeous that I so love and enjoy so much seeing the different illustrations be much in The Harry Potter series. Thank you so much for stopping by my book blog my friend.

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