Over the last few months, Scholastic has been celebrating the 15th anniversary of the Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone release by unveiling all new paperback book covers designed by artist extraordinaire, Kazu Kibuishi.
That’s right. Today marks, surprisingly, the tenth anniversary for the release of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Book 5 of J.K. Rowling’s magnificent Harry Potter series, in both the United States and United Kingdom.
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Scholastic has recently announced that 15 public libraries across the United States will win a Harry Potter party pack in celebration of the 15th anniversary of the publication of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.
In February, it was revealed that Scholastic would be re-releasing each of the Potter books with completely newly designed covers, in order to mark the series’ 15th anniversary. Today, artist Kazu Kibuishi has revealed the second book cover while on-site at Book Expo America.
Today we celebrate yet another milestone in the Harry Potter fan community. The events of Harry’s second year at Hogwarts took place 20 years ago today. Over on Twitter we relived a bit of that magic by sharing events as they unfolded in the Chamber of Secrets ranging from Professor McGonagall’s declaration of all students to return to the house dormitories, to Hagrid returning from his stint in Azkaban.
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J.K. Rowling’s official site has just been updated with a look inside the annotated first edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone auctioned off just days ago at Sotheby. Check out this image of Snape drawn by the creator of the series herself!
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A first edition print of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone that had 43 pages covered with illustrations from author J.K. Rowling sold at Sotheby’s for 150,000 GBP (or close to $300,000 USD). It was a bidding war between two buyers as the auction raised a total of 439,200 GBP for English PEN, which campaigns for freedom of expression.
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What a week for Harry Potter fans! After MuggleNet posted about J.K. Rowling’s handwritten spreadsheet, we now have yet more handwritten material from J.K. Rowling, this time in the form of annotations in a copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, as featured in The Guardian.
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What goes on inside the mind of J.K. Rowling? It is a question that plagues every Harry Potter fan on a regular basis, but is very seldom answered. In an article from Flavorwire, nine widely known authors share bits of their early work on what would become literary classics. One author, of course, is J.K. Rowling, whose original website featured this some years ago.
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Young Gellert Grindelwald
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