Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: Illustrated Edition (Harry Potter, 4)
£27.30£33.30 (-18%)
Dragons! Daring! Danger! The first fully illustrated edition of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is an extraordinary creative achievement by two extraordinary talents. Jim Kay’s inspired reimagining of J.K. Rowling’s classic series has captured a devoted following worldwide, and the drama just gets bigger as the series progresses. With over 150 illustrations, Jim Kay’s unique vision delivers breathtaking scenes and unforgettable characters – including fan favourites Cedric Diggory, Fleur Delacour and Viktor Krum illustrated by Jim Kay for the first time.
Fizzing with magic and brimming with humour, this full-colour edition will captivate fans and new readers alike as Harry, now in his fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, finds himself competing in the legendary Triwizard Tournament and facing death-defying tasks, dragons and Dark wizards . Making magic in paint, pencil and pixels, this is the Wizarding World as we have never seen it before.
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Additional information
| Publisher | 1st edition (8 Oct. 2019), Bloomsbury Children's Books |
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| Language | English |
| Hardcover | 464 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1408845679 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1408845677 |
| Reading age | 8+ years, from customers |
| Dimensions | 27.6 x 3.8 x 23.8 cm |
by Oddsocks
When Harry Potter first came out I managed to read the first 3 then stopped to have a family and then Harry was forgotten.
Now I am older I have got back into the Wizarding World and it’s brilliant! I read the first 3 books on my kindle and although I have the others on ebook (thank you Kindle unlimited) I thought you can’t beat a real book and a book with illustrations will help get my imagination going!
When it was delivered I thought they had sent 2 books as the parcel was very heavy! This book is HUGE it’s fantastic.
A lot of people have been hating about the illustrations – do not listen to them, they are fabulous. There are a lot of pictures, small ones, double pages, single pages, page boarders, tiny badge pictures, descriptive diagrams, illustrations that you would find in a guide book, pictures on pages with writing over the top – they are all fantastic. I will admit most of the illustrations are very surreal and remind me of “The Waste Land” or “Alice in Wonderland”.
The book is really well put together and has a fabulous dust cover and silk book mark. Amazon currently has it for half the rrp which is incredible value and this book will be treasured for a long time.
The only ‘bad’ point is the text is quite small (even though the pages are huge) but it’s not a problem.
I recommend this book for any Harry Potter fan especially if you like your drawings a bit off the wall and you don’t hold any preconceptions about how the characters should look.
by Zelda
My grandchildren love the Hogwarts books so this is a great addition.
by jesus braga perez
Great book with beautiful drawings. A bit big and heavy but can’t have one without the other. I bought all the books available and will buy the rest when published.
by S.Davidoff
Really makes a great present. Beautifully illustrated, quality is great. My daughter loves Harry and is very happy with this book
by aly
My granddaughter was thrilled with this book, the illustrations are beautiful.
by Ratty
I’ve always had a problem with Jim Kay’s illustrations. I have found them to nursery bookish for the average Harry Potter reader. I really didn’t take to the first book in the series because of it’s fantastical quality that was more in keeping with a preschool book than a young teens to adult novel.
With book two the style matured a bit as if he accepted that the reading age was also maturing with Harry’s progress through his school years and, quite a lot of the whimsical, fantastical and childishness of the first volume was played down and almost disappeared in the second of the series.
But sadly the maturity wasn’t carried forwards into the third volume and appeared to stall.
This one however is somewhat of a mishmash. In some ways it as matured but in other it’s taken a retrograde step back into the absurd.
Take for instance his depiction of the Hogwarts Express. In the first volume he depicts it like something as dreamt up by Heath Robinson or Emit; a fantastical creation part machine part iron dragon with allsorts of gothic ornamentation.
In this volume he depicted it more like the version in the movies. It actually resembles a Great Western steam locomotive but he had to spoil it by giving it a stupidly impossibly high funnel and a dragons crest.
Also he doesn’t give it a tender. Okay it’s a magical train, it runs on magic, but it’s got to fool the muggles so it would have a tender for appearance sake. It either looks and behaves like a regular train or it’s totally magical; not some hybrid that’s neither one or the other. That’s only one example there are many others.
But the thing that got me the most with this volume is the inconsistency of the depiction of the characters.
He doesn’t seem to agree with himself as to what any one character looks like from one picture to the next.
Harry’s apparent age goes up and down throughout the book.
At the beginning he looks like a first year, then a couple of chapters in he looks like sixth former then in the next chapter he’s a young boy again. The shape of his face changes from picture to picture; you can’t have mistaken someone else for him because of the give away glasses and lightning-blot scar.
Other characters suffer the same transfiguration from page to page.
Also the style of depiction of the characters is more in the style of Quentin Blake, the illustrator for Roald Dahl books, and for me to comic and grotesque for the world of Potter. Yes Potters world is magical, and some may say far fetched, but it is firmly rooted in our reality. The people within it share the same feelings, problems and mundain irritations as the rest of us. That’s why we identify with it so much. It’s not some comic strip joke of a universe like Roald Dahl writes about (good though that is). No Potter’s world is recognisably our world and therefore the characters in it look as we do.
While on the characters; none of the illustrations have captions so it’s not immediately apparent who it is you are supposed to be looking at; confused by your own imagining of the character, the movie version of the character and that his illustration looks nothing like either.
But having said that he is starting to get some other things right. Strangely most of that is the dark side of the story. Voldermort and the Death Eaters, the Darth Mark and I particularly like his Dragons.
Maybe he’ll get it together by the time he illustrates the Deathly Hallows.
Negative criticism aside, which are my own personal feeling on the content; you may totally disagree with them, but as a book it is a beautiful produced volume, quality through out and a nice edition to the range.
by ????
I am 14 and have lost count of the number of times I have read the Harry Potter series. I bought this book in September and I am really glad i did because it is an excellent addition to my Harry Potter book collection (I have my Mum’s old books and hardback 2015 (I think) copies as well, which I would recommend) the illustrations in this book are beautiful, however, I do have a slight grumble, which is that there are fewer pages with illustrations in them in than in the previous three. I understand that this is a larger book and that Jim Kay was being rushed by many fans, however I would have preferred quantity over speed and I wouldn’t have minded paying a few extra galleons for more drawings. Hopefully, in Order of the Pheonix, which comes out in October, there will be more illustrations. This book would be good for reading to children, however I am not sure if it is suitable for young kids… there are some scary bits… if you want advice I think I first read this book when I was eight and I didn’t get nightmares, however, I watched the Philosopher’s Stone when I was seven and I got nightmares so I wouldn’t watch this film until I am at least eleven. (I first watched this film when I was thirteen, but I am not a fan of the films and after watching the first I only watched them with friends).
I would recommend getting this book if, like me, you like collecting Harry Potter books.