K, you know what's stupid? Not only did the Americans (I have nothing against them in general, but sometimes the things some of them do are just unacceptable, which is the case for all people so I'm not discriminating!) horrible-ize the Harry Potter covers AND the title of the first book, they did both to the 'His Dark Materials' books too! They re-name the first book from 'The Northern Lights' to 'The Golden Compass'-it's not even a compass you dummies, it's an alethiometer. And for Harry Potter they changed it from 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' to 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone'-if they were smart, they would leave it as the Philosopher's Stone cuz that's actually what it is as it was actually something alchemists tried to make ages ago (who knows, maybe someone is still trying), NOT a sorcerer's stone! And then the American covers of both series' are absolutely horrible compared to the good ol' UK ones. Jeepers, why can't the publishers just leave something good for what it is??? Yeah, so that was my anti-American-publishing of Fantasy books spiel for the day, I hope you enjoyed and maybe learned something. Yeah, I should get back to my homework, I was looking for a knife pic for my title page and dicovered all these American oddities along the way, so, yeah...see ya. :)