Harry Potter, along with his friends, Ron and Hermione, is about to start his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry cant wait to get back to school after the summer holidays. (Who wouldnt if they lived with the Dursleys?) But when Harry gets to Hogwarts, the atmosphere is tense. Theres an escaped mass murderer on the loose, and the sinister prison guards of Azkaban have been called in to guard the school. Winner of the 1999 Nestle Smarties Book Prize and the 2000 Scottish Arts Council Childrens Book Award. The Harry Potter books are that rare thing, a series pf stories adored by parents and children alike. The Daily Telegraph Winner of the 1999 Whitbread Childrens Book of the Year