It’s OFFICIAL! The final cover of the highly anticipated Harry Potter series of paperback books will be unveiled in New York City. Will you be joining us there?
Book / Book Series / News
According to the “London Evening Standard”, Princess Beatrice did not enjoy books as a child because her dyslexia made sitting and reading difficult. However, once she started reading “Harry Potter”, her relationship with books became positive.
Book / Book Series / Fandom / News
Elmhurst, Illinois might not be an obvious choice for an American version of Hogwarts, but next week, this Chicago suburb will host Harry Potter Camp for children ages 8-12. According to their website, there are still spots open for those wishing to attend the daytime summer session beginning July 8 through July 19.
News / PS/SS / WW Digital
According to the London Evening Standard, Stephen Fry visited the Jubilee Primary School today and read from the book that he is forever linked to: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. He was with London Evening Standard owner Evgeny Lebedev, who provided an amusing warm-up act reading from Roald Dahl’s The Witches on a NOOK eReader, ahead of the free Get Reading Festival organized by the Evening Standard and NOOK in Trafalgar Square on July 13.
Entertainment Weekly has just released a new list of their picks for the top ten greatest books of all time and the Potter series comes in seventh! The magazine calls the Potter books “the richest coming-of-age tale ever.”
MuggleNet has found the images for both Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. According to an article by the Wall Street Journal, the cover for Goblet of Fire was released by Scholastic’s vice president and publisher, Arthur Levine, in Chicago, Illinois at the annual American Library convention.
As we reported earlier, the new Scholastic cover for the paperback version of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was set to be released during the Opening Ceremonies at the LeakyCon convention in Portland, Oregon which several members of the MuggleNet staff are attending. Those ceremonies have now taken place and Cheryl Klein, Scholastic’s content editor for the Harry Potter book series, removed the cover and exposed the image.
There’s been a lot of exciting news about Harry Potter cover art recently. While you wait to check out the new cover art from Scholastic, why not check out some of these awesome illustrations by the original US illustrator Mary GrandPre?
Bloomsbury / Book / Book Series / News
To go along with the anticipation of the unveiling of the new Scholastic book cover for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban today during the opening ceremonies at LeakyCon, we have some additional book cover news. However, this time it is news for the adult editions of the Potter books from Bloomsbury in the UK.
2016
2005
Death Eater (DH1, DH2)
2010
Rosier
1994
Young Gellert Grindelwald
Gellert Grindelwald – FB
1994
MuggleNet podcasts are sponsored in part by Secretlab.
Thanks to its research-backed ergonomic design, including a proprietary 4-way adaptive lumbar support system, the Secretlab TITAN Evo Harry Potter Edition will comfortably support you even when you’re up to no good.