The Unofficial Harry Potter Vocabulary Builder: Learn the 3,000 Hardest Words from All Seven Books and Enjoy the Series More

The effort to publish this book will reward readers as they navigate through Harry Potter novels. Useful to understand R.K. Rowling's choice of words such as English words, slang and mystical terminology. Graphics also help visualize many words. This book does not work magic but if you want to improve you vocabulary you still need to make the effort.

The book was in great shape...and it came very quickly. It was a gift and the person loved it.

This is a great book in concept, but it did not work in application. I brought this book for my son who is almost 9 yr old. He is reading the Harry Potter books, and had questions about some of the words. I thought that this book would help him. But he was too lazy (not interested) in putting down the Harry Potter books in order to look up a vocabulary word in this book. The author should have either made a version of the Harry Potter books with a glossary in the back of the book or followed the format of the The Wizard of Oz Vocabulary Builder where the words are defined on the actual page they are used at the bottom. Or another option would have been to make a Harry Potter Study with weekly vocabulary tests set up as the words are introduced in the series. Or the book could have followed the Vocabulary Cartoons: SAT Word Power with pictures from the movies or cartoons -- something that would have made the book an interest to read in itself, because the kids are not using it as a reference.

We bought the Harry Potter series for our private high school library. The vocabulary book is probably on an 8th grade level and is like a dictionary giving the words and definitions. Each word is referenced to a specific volume, page and word in one of the Potter books. The definitions are clear, comprehensive and fun. There are a lot of "regular" words and not just "Potter-specific" words that will be useful to help struggling readers understand what's going on in the books.