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http://thehogshead.org/pre-order-harry-potter-imagination/

“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.”  Those words, written by Plutarch and quoted by J.K. Rowling in her 2008 Harvard commencement speech, sum up both the Harry Potter series and Travis Prinzi’s analysis of the best-selling books in Harry Potter & Imagination: The Way Between Two Worlds.   Great imaginative literature places readers between two worlds – the magical world on the page and the world of daily life – and challenges readers to imagine and to act for a better world.  Starting with Harry Potter’s great themes, Harry Potter & Imagination< takes readers on a journey through the transformative power of those themes for both the individual and for culture by placing Rowling’s series in its literary, historical, and cultural contexts.  Prinzi explores how fairy stories in general, and Harry Potter in specific, are not merely tales that are read to “escape from the real world,” but stories with the power to transform by teaching us to imagine better.

Harry Potter & Imagination looks like a great read, and a great literary and analytical book about Harry Potter. Definitely a better book than Mugglenet’s book, which was fun to read, but not very… well it wasn’t literary masterpiece.

So pre-order it. Now.

http://thehogshead.org/

EDIT: spelling fail–recommendation has one “C” 😦