29 years ago today, the first installment of the Harry Potter book series - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, was published in the UK under Bloomsbury. It won most of the British book awards that were judged by children. The book reached the top of the New York Times list of best-selling fiction in August 1999 and stayed near the top of that list for much of 1999 and 2000. It has been translated into at least 73 other languages, and sold 120 million copies, making it the third best-selling book of all time.READ more about the book's acclaim... (1997)
