We particularly recommend The Magician’s Nephew as a fabulous read in that series, preceding the story you might already have seen as a movie. It’d also be impossible not to have CS Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia on a list of books like Harry Potter. In addition to the ones we’ve already mentioned, a few books about magic or magicians that preceded (and may have inspired) Harry Potter include TB White’s The Once and Future King, and A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin. Wands were nothing new when Rowling started writing the Harry Potter books in the 1990s and there had been many books (and movies) about magic/witches/wizards for kids before. There’s this strange feeling when you put down a Harry Potter book-a testament to JK Rowling’s ability to create a world which seems completely real-that you really want to hold a wand and use it to clear up the kitchen or do the vacuum cleaning. Foreign Policy & International Relations.
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