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Volume 23, Issue 1
16 January 2009
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Book Review| January 16 2009

Harry Potter Lexicon

Steve
 
Vander Ark
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Harry Potter Lexicon
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2000‐
. Gratis URL: www.hp‐lexicon.org/ (prefer www.hp‐lexicon.info) Last visited August 2008
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Lesley S.J. Farmer
Professor and Librarianship Program Coordinator, Department of Educational Psychology, Administration and Counseling, California State University Long Beach, California, USA
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-7697
Print ISSN: 0950-4125
© Emerald Group Publishing Limited
2009
Licensed reuse rights only.
Reference Reviews (2009) 23 (1): 35–36.
https://doi.org/10.1108/09504120910925698
Keywords: Children (age groups), Electronic media, Fiction

If you are a Harry Potter fan, you have probably known about this web site for years. If you are a legal beagle, you have also probably heard about the Lexicon, which was made even more famous when Warner Bros. and J.K. Rowling sued RDR Books for the intent to publish the book form of the Harry Potter Lexicon. So why all the fuss?

The Harry Potter Lexicon was created in 2000 by Steve Vander Ark, a school librarian with a penchant for keeping notes and drawing diagrams, to guide his reading – and a professional urge to...

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