Owner Cammie Mannino believes that at midnight, kids between 8 and 12 should be in bed, so she won't be open next Friday night. Instead her store will open Saturday morning at 8 a.m., and will give away free tickets to the first 52 kids who come in for a Tuesday night Harry Potter party at the store. Harry's friend, a bossy but goodhearted girl who always has her hand up in class and reads voraciously. Harry's wise, esteemed headmaster. A book editor is mugged on a London street by thieves seeking a manuscript.
Newspaper reporters break into a British printing press trying to steal the book.
You don't need a special delivery from a flying owl to know that people are going a little ga-ga about the release of the fourth Harry Potter book next week. It's a sort of tribalism to do what everybody else is doing, and what everybody is doing right now is reading Harry Potter. But I think the books sell themselves. I'd love to have my son read it first because we purchased the original Potter books for him. It's certainly head and shoulders above some of the other series that the kids get hooked on like the Goosebumps books, or the Sweet Valley books.