The “Harry Potter” series is at the top of the American Library Association’s list of books most challenged in 2002. Edit: Heidi also wanted me to mention that Judith Krug, Director of the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom, will be the Friday keynote speaker at Nimbus 2003!

The BAFTA nominations were announced this morning, and icLiverpool has the full list here. Chamber of Secrets pulled three nominations, including Production Design, Sound and Achievement in Special Visual Effects. Thanks to Julez for the link.

A neat little story about Belfast, which hosted the now famous author a few weeks before she was famous. Harry Potter author JK Rowling will be given a second chance to weave her magic spell on Belfast when she arrives back in town this summer. For the last time JK turned up for a book …read more!

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets has won the Broadcast Film Critics Association Critics’ Choice Award for Best Family Film (live action). John Williams also won in the Best Composer category.

The Sun (yes, we know!) has an article comprised of suggestions from Harry Potter fans as to what may happen in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

Some of you have inquired as to whether the American editions of OotP will be edited in the same way as the other four books have been; we don’t precisely know, but I did get word today that both JKR’s American and British editors are working on the book. Intuition says it will be the …read more!

Thanks Jey, for sending us this 2.5 MB file of the R5L interview, and Dr. C, for sending this transcript of the interview, in which I made comments to make some things clear. It’s really sort of terrible, seeing the way you ramble in a transcript like that… anyway, thanks again!

The Buffalo News reports on Quebecor, whose paperback plant in Depew “has printed books for Scholastic since Harry Potter left his abominable aunt and uncle and found a permanent home on the best-seller list.”

According to CountingDown.com, part of a Highland auction mart will be taken over by Warner Brothers at the end of March. Construction of a film set will begin in April at Lochaber Rural Complex at Torlundy, near Fort William. Thanks, Sandra, for the link.

An article from the Vancouver Sun reports on how one Order of the Phoenix publisher, Raincoast Books, is gearing up for hard-cover press run which is expected to be about 800,000, almost certainly a Canadian record.