The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling
JK Rowling will publish her story of “wizarding fairy tales” with plans to donate all monies to the Children’s Voice campaign. The Tales of Beedle the Bard was mentioned in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows. It was a book given to Hermione from Dumbledore.
Bloomsbury Publishing and Scholastic will now publish editions with an introduction by Rowling, selling for $12.99, while Amazon will produce up to 100,000 collector’s edition copies, which will aim to replicate the look and feel of the original book and sell for $100.
Here are additional reviews and pics of the original book that Rowling auctioned at Sotheby’s. The five stories are: The Wizard and the Hopping Pot, The Fountain of Fair Fortune, The Warlock’s Hairy Heart, Babbitty, Rabbitty and her Cackling Stump and The Tale of the Three Brothers.
The book has a release date of December 4, 2008.
