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Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal (Harry Potter [edición con la portada ilustrada por Johnny Duddle] 1): Edición con marcapáginas de regalo
288 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published July 16, 2026
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J.K. Rowling
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Although she writes under the pen name J.K. Rowling, pronounced like rolling, her name when her first Harry Potter book was published was simply Joanne Rowling. Anticipating that the target audience of young boys might not want to read a book written by a woman, her publishers demanded that she use two initials, rather than her full name. As she had no middle name, she chose K as the second initial of her pen name, from her paternal grandmother Kathleen Ada Bulgen Rowling. She calls herself Jo and has said, "No one ever called me 'Joanne' when I was young, unless they were angry." Following her marriage, she has sometimes used the name Joanne Murray when conducting personal business. During the Leveson Inquiry she gave evidence under the name of Joanne Kathleen Rowling. In a 2012 interview, Rowling noted that she no longer cared that people pronounced her name incorrectly.
Rowling was born to Peter James Rowling, a Rolls-Royce aircraft engineer, and Anne Rowling (née Volant), on 31 July 1965 in Yate, Gloucestershire, England, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Bristol. Her mother Anne was half-French and half-Scottish. Her parents first met on a train departing from King's Cross Station bound for Arbroath in 1964. They married on 14 March 1965. Her mother's maternal grandfather, Dugald Campbell, was born in Lamlash on the Isle of Arran. Her mother's paternal grandfather, Louis Volant, was awarded the Croix de Guerre for exceptional bravery in defending the village of Courcelles-le-Comte during the First World War.
Rowling's sister Dianne was born at their home when Rowling was 23 months old. The family moved to the nearby village Winterbourne when Rowling was four. She attended St Michael's Primary School, a school founded by abolitionist William Wilberforce and education reformer Hannah More. Her headmaster at St Michael's, Alfred Dunn, has been suggested as the inspiration for the Harry Potter headmaster Albus Dumbledore.
As a child, Rowling often wrote fantasy stories, which she would usually then read to her sister. She recalls that: "I can still remember me telling her a story in which she fell down a rabbit hole and was fed strawberries by the rabbit family inside it. Certainly the first story I ever wrote down (when I was five or six) was about a rabbit called Rabbit. He got the measles and was visited by his friends, including a giant bee called Miss Bee." At the age of nine, Rowling moved to Church Cottage in the Gloucestershire village of Tutshill, close to Chepstow, Wales. When she was a young teenager, her great aunt, who Rowling said "taught classics and approved of a thirst for knowledge, even of a questionable kind," gave her a very old copy of Jessica Mitford's autobiography, Hons and Rebels. Mitford became Rowling's heroine, and Rowling subsequently read all of her books.
Rowling has said of her teenage years, in an interview with The New Yorker, "I wasn’t particularly happy. I think it’s a dreadful time of life." She had a difficult homelife; her mother was ill and she had a difficult relationship with her father (she is no longer on speaking terms with him). She attended secondary school at Wyedean School and College, where her mother had worked as a technician in the science department. Rowling said of her adolescence, "Hermione [a bookish, know-it-all Harry Potter character] is loosely based on me. She's a caricature of me when I was eleven, which I'm not particularly proud of." Steve Eddy, who taught Rowling English when she first arrived, remembers her as "not exceptional" but "one of a group of girls who were bright, and quite good at English." Sean Harris, her best friend in the Upper Sixth owned a turquoise Ford Anglia, which she says inspired the one in her books.
Although she writes under the pen name J.K. Rowling, pronounced like rolling, her name when her first Harry Potter book was published was simply Joanne Rowling. Anticipating that the target audience of young boys might not want to read a book written by a woman, her publishers demanded that she use two initials, rather than her full name. As she had no middle name, she chose K as the second initial of her pen name, from her paternal grandmother Kathleen Ada Bulgen Rowling. She calls herself Jo and has said, "No one ever called me 'Joanne' when I was young, unless they were angry." Following her marriage, she has sometimes used the name Joanne Murray when conducting personal business. During the Leveson Inquiry she gave evidence under the name of Joanne Kathleen Rowling. In a 2012 interview, Rowling noted that she no longer cared that people pronounced her name incorrectly.
Rowling was born to Peter James Rowling, a Rolls-Royce aircraft engineer, and Anne Rowling (née Volant), on 31 July 1965 in Yate, Gloucestershire, England, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Bristol. Her mother Anne was half-French and half-Scottish. Her parents first met on a train departing from King's Cross Station bound for Arbroath in 1964. They married on 14 March 1965. Her mother's maternal grandfather, Dugald Campbell, was born in Lamlash on the Isle of Arran. Her mother's paternal grandfather, Louis Volant, was awarded the Croix de Guerre for exceptional bravery in defending the village of Courcelles-le-Comte during the First World War.
Rowling's sister Dianne was born at their home when Rowling was 23 months old. The family moved to the nearby village Winterbourne when Rowling was four. She attended St Michael's Primary School, a school founded by abolitionist William Wilberforce and education reformer Hannah More. Her headmaster at St Michael's, Alfred Dunn, has been suggested as the inspiration for the Harry Potter headmaster Albus Dumbledore.
As a child, Rowling often wrote fantasy stories, which she would usually then read to her sister. She recalls that: "I can still remember me telling her a story in which she fell down a rabbit hole and was fed strawberries by the rabbit family inside it. Certainly the first story I ever wrote down (when I was five or six) was about a rabbit called Rabbit. He got the measles and was visited by his friends, including a giant bee called Miss Bee." At the age of nine, Rowling moved to Church Cottage in the Gloucestershire village of Tutshill, close to Chepstow, Wales. When she was a young teenager, her great aunt, who Rowling said "taught classics and approved of a thirst for knowledge, even of a questionable kind," gave her a very old copy of Jessica Mitford's autobiography, Hons and Rebels. Mitford became Rowling's heroine, and Rowling subsequently read all of her books.
Rowling has said of her teenage years, in an interview with The New Yorker, "I wasn’t particularly happy. I think it’s a dreadful time of life." She had a difficult homelife; her mother was ill and she had a difficult relationship with her father (she is no longer on speaking terms with him). She attended secondary school at Wyedean School and College, where her mother had worked as a technician in the science department. Rowling said of her adolescence, "Hermione [a bookish, know-it-all Harry Potter character] is loosely based on me. She's a caricature of me when I was eleven, which I'm not particularly proud of." Steve Eddy, who taught Rowling English when she first arrived, remembers her as "not exceptional" but "one of a group of girls who were bright, and quite good at English." Sean Harris, her best friend in the Upper Sixth owned a turquoise Ford Anglia, which she says inspired the one in her books.
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Displaying 1 - 13 of 13 reviews
August 8, 2026
Me ha gustado mucho!!! Tengo que admitir que vi la película antes de leer el libro. Pero mi conclusión es que no se parece nada a la película ya que se saltan muchas escenas. Mi escena preferida es cuando entran al colegio por primera vez y como lo explica la autora. Te mete en la historia como si estuvieses viviendo esos momentos de nervios antes de asignar tu casa. Hace poco hice un scape room con unas amigas sobre esta saga y específicamente con la temática de este libro. Le recomiendo a todas las personas que les gustan las aventuras y la magia (como yo, lo admito) se lean este libro y que después vean la película (está muy buena la película).
ADVERTENCIA: una vez que empieces ya no hay vuelta atrás. El mundo mágico te engullirá en las aventuras de Harry Potter y sus amigos y después no podrás salir de allí.
Me encanta la saga!!!
ADVERTENCIA: una vez que empieces ya no hay vuelta atrás. El mundo mágico te engullirá en las aventuras de Harry Potter y sus amigos y después no podrás salir de allí.
Me encanta la saga!!!
Review of advance copy received from Otros
Definitivamente un clásico, sencillo, divertido y mil veces mas satisfactorio a la hora de percibir los pequeños detalles que hacen las enormes diferencias con sus maravillosas hermanas cinematográficas.
Review of advance copy
Relectura de este año. No recordaba muchas cosas como lo irritante de la poca familia que tiene Harry y Hermione. Lo ingenuo que puede ser Hagrid a veces y la amistad tan linda que se crea con Ron, que siempre incluye a Harry en lo que puede. Tan mágico como la primera vez.
August 11, 2026
Este libro es nostalgia pura, y si no le pongo 5 estrellas es porque no me parece de los mejores de la saga. PERO es absolutamente imposible que quiera cambiar o no me haya gustado algo de lo que haya leído acá.
Review of advance copy received from Autor
Que te puedo decir de un clásico, una historia que si o si debes saber, el mejor adaptado y el inicio de una gran historia
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June 27, 2026Está bien
Review of advance copy received from Otros
Me gustó, muy entretenido
July 21, 2026
relectura, fue mucho mejor de lo que lo recordaba, ily a harry chiquito
July 26, 2026
Tercera leída, que maravilla
(No había necesidad de que decoraran el comedor de Slytherin para luego humillarnos regalando puntos a lo bobo a los Griffindor
(No había necesidad de que decoraran el comedor de Slytherin para luego humillarnos regalando puntos a lo bobo a los Griffindor
July 30, 2026
Me gustó más la película
August 11, 2026
Lo ame ♡
August 12, 2026
jajaja es una prueba
August 13, 2026
la CANTIDAD de cosas que dejan afuera en la pelicula me parece hasta un insulto, igualmente la voy a ver de nuevo para refrescarme y poder quejarme pero con mas sentido
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