I was introduced to the world of Harry Potter through Chris Columbus's film adaptations, which are pretty much the same as the novels but this book was different.
Both the movie and the book share the basic plot: Harry returns for his third year, and Sirius Black is free from Azkaban, the prison for bad wizards, and seems to have it in for Potter. But the book has a lot more details than the movie, or rather the movie left out a lot of the details. One of the major scenes, where Harry confronts Black, is much better written in the book, and the exposition is handled a lot better.
By the third book, J.K. Rowling has definitely developed her writing voice, and keeps expanding the Potter universe and its characters. I especially enjoyed learning more about Harry's parents, and seeing that Hermione got more fleshed out than the nerdy kid who's an overachiever.
This book was highly addictive, even though I've already seen the movie, and any book that gets kids to happily read a 500 plus page book is okay with me. With only a couple stretches in the plot to complain about (Like (blank) is really (blank) who we all thought was dead), this is the best of the first three books. A-
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