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The Tales of Beedle the Bard


By J. K. Rowling


of course, there are only going to be 7 copies printed:

http://omg.yahoo.com/rowling-complet...book/news/3619

Rowling completes post-Harry Potter book


LONDON - J.K. Rowling has completed her first book not to feature teen wizard Harry Potter an illustrated collection of magical fairy stories titled "The Tales of Beedle the Bard."

Only seven copies of the book are being printed, Rowling said Thursday. One will be auctioned next month to raise money for a children's charity, while the others have been given away as gifts.

Rowling drew the illustrations herself and provided the handwriting for the five stories that make up the collection of fairytales.

"The Tales of Beedle the Bard" is mentioned in the final Potter book, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," as a gift left by headmaster Albus Dumbledore to Harry's friend Hermione, and provides clues that help destroy evil Lord Voldemort.

"'The Tales of Beedle the Bard' is really a distillation of the themes found in the Harry Potter books, and writing it has been the most wonderful way to say goodbye to a world I have loved and lived in for 17 years," Rowling said in a statement.

The volume, bound in brown morocco leather and mounted with silver and semiprecious stones, will be auctioned at Sotheby's on Dec. 13 with a starting price of $62,000. Proceeds will go to The Children's Voice, a charity that helps vulnerable children across Europe.

"Deathly Hallows," the seventh and final installment in Harry's adventures, was published in July. The seven books have sold nearly 400 million copies and have been translated into 64 languages.

Rowling told the British Broadcasting Corp. that the book of fairytales had helped her say goodbye to Harry's world.

"It's not about Harry, Ron and Hermione, but it comes from that world," she told BBC radio in an interview broadcast Thursday. "So it's been therapeutic in a way."

Rowling said she was working on a new book, "a half-finished book for children that I think will probably be the next thing I publish."

On Wednesday, Rowling and the makers of the Harry Potter movies filed a lawsuit against RDR Books, a small U.S. publisher that plans to bring out a companion volume based on the Harry Potter Lexicon fan Web site.

Rowling has said she plans to produce her own encyclopedia of the wizarding world and says the book would infringe on her intellectual property rights.

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Linderbee

This really upsets me. She could make a TON more by having it printed large-scale, and the proceeds could still go to charity, but no. Gotta be all...freakin...stupid.

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D-Dogg

i think it's fine. She did books like that large scale printing for charity (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Quidditch Through the Ages).

This is just a different take on that, IMO. She's raised and given a TON of money to charity...she's very active in that regard. I don't blame her for trying something different.

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Linderbee

Boo! Average folk like you & me will never get to see it, and that sucks.

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abomb

This will have to be reprinted right?

D-Dogg

Well yes, I can see that point. I'd love to read it.


But Jo is my sister and I will stick up for her to the death!!

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