Bloomsbury Childrens Books Quidditch Through The Ages

Im a bit cautious about this book. I bought it a month ago, only for it to come with other things i’ve ordered from amazon but it wasn’t there. The box looked like it had been manually opened, which meant it had been stolen from the delivery person as i was at the door receiving my parcel or it hadn’t been shipped at all. I went on Amazon to see if it had came yet, it said it had arrived at my address but it just wasn’t there. So after the shock of that, I called amazon and i was given a free copy of the book. I was angry when they said it would come maybe in the month of March, two months!!Anyways, I accepted. It came 2 weeks later the book, not in hardcover as I wanted. It took me 3 hours to read the book and it gave just a brief explanation of where and how quidditch appeared.I’m a massive potter head and I would say there isn’t much to it, i’ve been collecting harry potter for 3 years and i’ve dedicated a whole room for it. It’s now sitting on a book display on my bookshelf with the rest of my collectibles. But i really did have to go through hell just to get a 150-190 page book that, not going to lie, is pretty boring. It’s just nice to display really.

I found this book to be far better than "fantastic beasts and where to find them" as it goes in to more depth with the history, which could be seen as very convincing. The book starts off by going into explaining the humble beginnings of the game in a wizard's family garden. The book continues on to the more primitive, earlier version of the game, the rules and the controversies, the historic games, the advances in broomsticks - how it was popular to make your own in the early stages of the games before witches and wizards eventually decided to buy them made from companies. It also talks about the balls used in the game and what they were once originally made of and what the Golden Snitch was based on. It finishes by explaining how the game is played today.Throughout there are mentions of prominent Teams and Players throughout the world and how it spread throughout. A whole chapter being dedicated to the Quidditch teams of The UK and Ireland.I love how Rowling does a great job making this world believable that it's actually real. I think all Harry Potter fans should at least read this once.

Excellent book from JK Rowling adding another sprinkle of magic to the Harry Potter universe. If you're a fan and you've read everything else HP related then I'd recommend investing in a copy of Quidditch Through the Ages as referenced in the books themselves!

Got this book and another for my 9 year old nephew. He loves them! He's already read the Harry Potter books and is thrilled with these.

This booklet was delivered promptly and was an original copy; it was slightly scruffy in consequence. The book itself is an amusing spoof of the history and rules of the game of Quiddich, ghost-written for the Comic Relief charity by the Author of the well-known Harry Potter series. As well as being fascinating for 13-year-olds, it would appear to have provided the foundation of the Quiddich games regularly played between various university teams (including Oxford).