Harry Potter: A Pop-Up Guide to Hogwarts Hardcover – Pop up, 16 Nov. 2018

My daughter first found this book at a well-known science fiction/fantasy store, and I had to try really hard to keep her from spending all her precious pocket money. These pop-up books are quite expensive after all. Eventually we got it for her birthday, for a slightly better online price. This really made the birthday.I already have a small collection of modern and vintage Star Wars Books. And in particular these massive cardboard pop-up books are excellent created by Matthew Reinhart are excellent. It’s truly the summit of paper-art and simply brilliant. It’s really nice to go through them with the children, their cousins/ friends or anyone with a remote interest in Harry Potter. It’s just full of surprises and overflowing with details. Though the accompanying texts to the scenes are not really adding much to those with knowledge of the books and movies. .As a book it reads nicely, its has essentially 5 major scenes, but each has little folds that reveal more characters and additional scenes. It is quite interactive (though somewhat fragile) with levers. And then the pop up book can be folded out carefully to create a giant 3D diorama. This book will not only look nice on your coffee table, it will probably need every inch - in fact, you’ll probably need 2 or 3 coffee tables to fold out the whole 3D diorama.Given the delicate nature of such books you do want assist young Potter enthusiasts when browsing through it. But if you manage to keep it tidy this impressive hugely entertaining book will draw family and friends interest for decades to come.

I love this. This will be a gift that I am sure will be very well received. The pop ups are brilliant. Lots on each page and when I was checking it I found that it opens out fully. I can't wait to give it and see the excitement it will bring. Printed well.

Bought this for my daughter’s 11th birthday. I’m glad I read other reviews beforehand as I agree that the pictures are quite dark, and it’s difficult to see the detail through the windows. Also opening the book out into the full scene was difficult. You need to push the tabs carefully out, rather than just pulling the pages apart as they would definitely rip. However, there is so much amazing detail to discover! My daughter used a torch to see the darker areas and loves exploring behind the walls and doors. It’s definitely a book to treasure and show off to friends. I don’t think I would have paid £50 for it but I’m glad to have paid £22. Worth every penny and my daughter thinks it’s the best book she’s ever owned.

I strongly suggest this fantastic pop-up guidebook!

My daughter is a huge Harry Potter fan and absolutely loves this. There's so much to look at and see. It may be expensive, hence it being a present, but it is well worth the money. It's a must for any HP fan.

Harry Pottter: A Pop-Up Guide to Hogwarts is exactly what it sounds like, an interactive 3D pop-up model of Hogwarts Castle as well as locations like the Quidditch pitch, the Forbidden Forest and even part of Hogsmead Village. There are five large models that can be opened separately or if you're very careful you can fold out the entire book into one huge map. Although it was fun to open the book out fully once I found that when you've done that it's so big that you can't really appreciate all of the little details so I actually prefer to look at the models separately so I can fully enjoy what I'm seeing.This is the kind of book that you never get tired of because there are just so many little hidden doors and windows to open, additional pull tabs that bring out new pop-ups or move characters around etc, that every time you look at a page you find your eyes drawn to a new detail that you didn't spot before. Honestly, the amount of detail is insane and if you have a torch on hand for looking inside the models you'll find even more. Spot Hagrid baking rock cakes in his house or Harry and his friends having a Herbology lesson in the greenhouse, you can even help Harry catching a golden snitch on the Quidditch pitch!This book isn't cheap so I was hesitant to make the purchase at full price but it was well worth the money when I found it going cheap on Amazon. As lovely as it is I still think it's over priced at £50 but for around £20 I think Harry Potter fans will be very happy with it.I found it really difficult to take decent pics of the pop-ups but hopefully these photos should give you some idea of the amount of detail included

This pop-up book was very well received by a child who is mad on anything "Harry Potter". The paper craftsmanship is superb and the whole layout opens out much larger than expected. Delightful artwork and surprises behind many doors.

This book is REALLY lovely.I never usually bother to write reviews but I felt compelled to this time as it's such an awsome book. We just gave it to our 8 year old for his birthday and are amazed by the detail and how clever this book is in the way it pops up and opens out like a 3d map of Hogwarts. Such a lovely book which I know our son will enjoy looking at for a long time.Well done to whoever designed this product, its fab!