Harry Potter: Exploring Hogwarts: An Illustrated Guide

This is one of the best books I've ever bought for my children. Beautifully isslustratedband interesting. It really has captured their imagination. Perfect for my 8-year-old and interesting to look at for his little brother.

A little disappointed at this book. It is called Exploring Hogwarts and that it shows you parts to be explored but it doesn’t. Part of which is, it only shows 1 of the 4 common rooms which I was very disappointed about and it only explains information, which most of us already knew. It’s very well presented but leaves out a lot of knowledge and because of this, I am only giving it a 3 out of 5 😔

Wayyyy too big and simple !

This is a wonderful idea - and I like the balance between illustration and interesting facts about how the films were made. However, it's badly let down for me by the illustrations, which give, IMO, entirely the wrong 'feel' to the book and in one instance at least are entirely inaccurate. See picture below: Voldemort on the back of Quirrell's head. Not a very atmospheric depiction of a truly scary moment but, more importantly, Voldemort has a perfectly normal face, COMPLETE WITH NOSE! The book clearly describes him as having red eyes, and two slits, like a snake, instead of a nose. Call me pedantic, but this book is presumably designed to appeal exactly to those Harry Potter addicts who will most certainly notice mistakes in detail. Have the illustrator and copy-editor even read the books?