AlTerre has announced the January 26 publication of Steve Vander Ark’s new Lexicon to the Harry Potter novels.

This unauthorized guide to the popular novels by author J.K. Rowling is a 400 page companion work perfect for the curious reader who wants to know more about this remarkable series. Extensive new commentary, which does not appear on Vander Ark’s Harry Potter Lexicon website (http://www.hp-lexicon.org), adds to the fun of using this reference work.

Steve Vander Ark’s Harry Potter Lexicon website welcomes more than 25 million visitors annually. For years, fans who have seen the author keynote major academic conferences on the Harry Potter novels, including Sectus in London, Patronus in Copenhagen, Lumos in Las Vegas and Prophecy in Toronto, have been asking him to write an original companion work on this wonderful series. This book offers fascinating analysis, new insights and a deep appreciation of Rowling’s work. This new and different book with a new focus and purpose.

Vander Ark has been interviewed by the BBC, the Today Show, the New York Times, Time Magazine, the Associated Press, the New

Yorker, the London Times and the Guardian. His interview for an A&E television special on the series appears as a bonus feature on the DVD edition of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Vander Ark has been honored by series fans who value his fascinating insights and literary analysis. The Association for Library Services for Children, a division of the American Library Association, has named the Lexicon website one of 15 “Great Web Sites For Kids.” It has also been named a USA Today Hot Site.

Steve Vander Ark studied library science and media management at Grand Valley State University and worked as a school media specialist for many

years in the Grand Rapids, Michigan area. The internationally respected Harry Potter Lexicon website, which Vander Ark founded in 2000, is one of the most respected, quoted and used sources of information on the Potter novels.

The Lexicon by Steve Vander Ark is published in trade paperback at $24.95 (ISBN 9782923640037). The Lexicon is available nationally through bookstores and distributed in Canada by Scholarly Books Services Inc

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Steve Vander Ark’s new Lexicon to the Harry Potter books

publishes January 26, 2009