JK Rowling Book Helps Institutionalized Children
JK Rowling has announced that she will make The Tales of Beedle the Bard, her book of wizarding fairy tales, available to the public on Thursday, December 4. Proceeds will go to Children’s High Level Group, a charity she founded in 2005 to help European children who are living in residential institutions.
Only seven copies of the book were initially published; six were given to select people by Rowling and the seventh was auctioned off publicly and acquired by Amazon.com.
On her official site, Rowling says, ”The new edition will include the Tales themselves, translated from the original runes by Hermione Granger, and with illustrations by me, but also notes by Professor Albus Dumbledore, which appear by generous permission of the Hogwarts Headmasters’ Archive.”
The book will be produced by Scholastic in the United States and by Bloomsbury in the United Kingdom; Amazon.com will offer a collectors’ edition as well as the standard edition.
