PRAISE FOR The Magical Worlds
of Harry Potter
“A feast for future game-show contestants . . .
You could use it as reference to set up a round of Jeopardy!”
—Orlando Sentinel
“A guide to the history, literature, and mythology Rowling sprinkles throughout her . . . Harry Potter books. Grown-ups might like [it] too, because it painlessly exposes youngsters to Shakespeare, Chaucer, Ovid, Flaubert, and more.”
—St. Louis
Post-Dispatch
“This irresistibly dippable book gently draws children in to the joys of works of reference.”
—The Times (London)
“[An] enthusiast’s treasury of facts.”
—The Times Educational
Supplement
“Harry Potter, the young hero of J. K. Rowling’s successful book series, lives in a world enriched by references to myths, legends, literature, and history. By probing this subtext—and revealing, for example, the hidden meanings in some characters’ names—David Colbert gives a fresh insight into Rowling’s books.”
—New Straits Times
(Malaysia)