Free Printable Harry Potter Coloring Pages

Harry Potter is the biggest book and movie sensation to hit the literary scene since Little House on the Prarie. I don't have statistics, but I am sure that the Harry Potter series is in the top best selling children's book series if not at the very top.

Volumes have been written to explain the popularity of JK Rowling's series. The best description I've come across was a bit from Ms. Rowling herself. She says that she has tried to use all the elements good fairy tale, fantasy, folk lore and write her stories in a way that resembled the wonderful British literary traditions. If you explore the Harry Potter series, you'll find similarities to Greek oral tradition, epic poetry, norse legends, Virgil, Homer, Parzifal, Shakespeare, King Arthur, Macbeth, Beowulf, Song of Roland, medieval folklore, German romantic mythology and fairy tale, the Grimm Brothers and even the Bible. JK Rowling has blended these literary traditions together and added some secret fairy dust of her own to create the wonder of Harry Potter.

That said, if you like Harry Potter, read on for links to hundreds of free printable Harry Potter coloring pages. These coloring pages might be assembled to create a coloring book. When you read aloud the Harry Potter series, allow children to color. If you allow students in homeschool or traditional school to color while you read, you will find that they make better literary connections. You will have rapt attention.

Coloring pages feature, Harry Potter, Ron Weasly, Hermione Granger, Rubeus Hagrid, Albus Dumbledore, Severus Snape, Hedwig the owl, Fluffy the three headed Cerberus, quidditch matches, other professors at Hogwarts Academy, Dobby the House-elf and many more.

Coloring-book.info (http://www.coloring-book.info/coloring/coloring_page.php?id=31) is a great site to bookmark for free printable coloring book pages. Coloring-book.info seems to have the most comprehensive collection of free printable coloring pages. There are 32 Harry Potter coloring book pages. These are the Marie Grand-Pre images from the book series.

Top-coloriages.net (http://www.top-coloriages.com/coloriages/61-coloriage-harry-potter.html) from France has ten free printable Harry Potter coloring pages from the movie series. These are nicely drawn and clear. The site is written entirely in French, but it's easy to use. Simply click and print as you would on an English speaking site.

http://www.coloring-kids.com/harry-potter-coloring-book-pages.html Coloring-kids.com is a new site for me. I was pleased with the 26 free printable Harry Potter coloring pages. Realistic images based on books and movies.

Bali Mermaid at Hubpages http://hubpages.com/hub/Free-Coloring-Pages---Harry-Potter---Rowling has 12 free printable coloring pages featuring Harry Potter. One coloring page is Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter.

http://coloringpages.nick-magic.com/harrypotter.html 15 free printable Harry Potter coloring pages.

http://www.educationalcoloringpages.com/harrypotter.html Three free printable coloring pages from the Harry Potter book series.

http://www.morecoloringpages.com/harry-potter_coloring_pages.html This site has five free printable Harry Potter coloring pages.

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