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Article: Critics and kids in United States give new Harry Potter a big thumbs up
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- AP Worldstream
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- June 23, 2003
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Dateline: NEW YORK
Booksellers aren't the only ones celebrating the new, mega-selling
Harry Potter. Critics _ of all ages _ love it, too.
"Ms. Rowling has imagined this universe in such minute and clever
detail that we feel that we've been admitted to a looking-glass world
as palpable as Tolkien's Middle Earth or L. Frank Baum's Oz," New
York Times critic Michiko Kakutani writes of "Harry Potter and the
Order of the Phoenix," the fifth of a planned seven Potter novels
by J.K. Rowling.
Meanwhile, 12-year-old Olivia Beckwith of Columbus, Ohio, got the
870-page book Saturday morning, read 500 pages the first day and the
rest on Sunday. Only a dance ...