New Potter Addition For Christmas
This holiday season there’s another piece of Harry Potter literature leaving JK Rowling’s hands to go up on display on store shelves, but this time it is not about Harry. The Tales of the Beetle Bard will hit store shelves on December 4th, and will retail (standard edition) for around $12.99. The collection of short stories is being published by the Children’s High Level Group and also is being released in the UK.
The book will feature five short stories, some of which were mentioned as being wizard fairy tales in the original Harry Potter series. The stories are as follow: 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.
J.K. Rowling wrote and illustrated a beautiful copy, which was later sold for a charity auction at Sotheby’s to Amazon for a whopping total of $1.95 million; the proceeds were donated to The Children’s Voice (charity organization). It is also rumored that J.K. Rowling made 7 or 8 additional copies and gave them as gifts to several crucial members that helped publish the Harry Potter series.
In light of these aforementioned rare editions, Amazon will publish a selective few special edition copies that are modeled after the first few beautifully created books. The special edition hardcover’s will retail somewhere around $100 each.
For those who do not know, in the original Harry Potter series, the Tales of the Beetle Bard was a book given to Hermoine that was later mentioned in the final book in the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The book also mentioned that the collection of stories was a very well written group of wizarding fairy tales, much like the fairy tales we tell our children only ours are referred to as “muggle” (the term used for non-magical humans) fairy tales.
Thanks to J.K. Rowling’s very well mannered writing tones and excellent writing expertise we can be sure this new little add-on to the series will provide an even further out of world and brilliant reading experience for book lovers of all ages.
