Three of the books placed among the "Top 100 Chapter Books" of all time, or children's novels, in a 2012 survey published by : Sorcerer's Stone ranked number three, Prisoner of Azkaban 12th, and Goblet of Fire 98th.
Origins In late 1997, film producer 's London offices received a copy of the first book in what would become Rowling's series of seven Harry Potter novels.
Fearing that American readers would not associate the word "philosopher" with magic although the is an ancient tradition in alchemy , Scholastic insisted that the book be given the title Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone for the American market.
A 2009 article from argued that the films were "in the vanguard" of adaptations of established properties being the modern film franchise model, citing , and as examples of successful film series that followed Harry Potter 's suit.