Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone by J.K Rowling

Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry's eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news: Harry Potter is a wizard, and he has a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. An incredible adventure is about to begin!

Just wondering if anyone has tried the Harry Potter Books? Would really recommend them, I think some of our book club members would love them if they haven't read them already. We  had a really fun time here in the library at platform 9 and three quarters for #HarryPotterBookNight ! on February the 5th and got  lots of brand new copies of the Harry Potter Series for the event. The events were open to anyone who wanted to book in but I  thought our book club might like to hear about it : )

 
 
 
To start off with we had a Harry Potter story time with Helen & Mark from "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" which lots of kids came to and some even dresses up as witches and wizards!

Afterwards we had a spell book & Potion making class with Professor Sarah where everyone designed their own spell books and made magic potions





Then we had a sorting ceremony where everyone put on the sorting hat and were sorted into their houses-Griffindor, Hufflepuff, Slytherin and Raven Claw, each Hogwarts student got a sticker with their house on it


Once the sorting hat had finished we started our
quiz with teams from the
different Hogwarts houses Our questions were pretty hard but everyone must have been reading up on Hogwarts as the houses got so many of the questions right . The quiz scores were really high but in the end there was a winning team, can anyone guess who won? !

Don't forget our next book club meeting is tomorrow Thursday the 25th of Feb at 3.30pm here in Ballyroan Library, we are reading "The Firework maker's daughter" by Phillip Pullman,  hope to see you there!