A new campaign has been launched by Scholastic UK, an affiliate of the Harry Potter publisher in America, to encourage kids to “Read Every Day,” as the campaign is titled. Potter stars Daniel Radcliffe – who portrayed the title character – and Emma Thompson – who portrayed Professor Sybill Trelawney – are suppporting the campaign.
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Back in June, MuggleNet reported that Scholastic had announced a contest that would give fifteen public libraries across the United States a Harry Potter party pack to celebrate fifteen years since Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone was first published.
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Yesterday the Deathly Hallows 15th Anniversary cover was finally unveiled, and the press release from Scholastic also revealed that Kazu Kibuishi not only created seven beautiful covers for the front of each Harry Potter book, he also created new art for the books’ back covers!
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As previously reported, Scholastic has brought on artist Kazu Kibuishi to design new covers for the 15th anniversary collection of the Potter series to be released over this year. The new covers can be bought as individual books or as a boxed set, which is now avaliable to pre-order before the release at the end of August.
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According to a new article in Publisher’s Weekly, Scholastic has hired artist Kazu Kibuishi, creator of the bestselling graphic novel series Amulet, to design and create a new paperback cover for each of the Harry Potter books in celebration of 15-years since the American release of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.
Author J.K. Rowling drew more than a million Harry Potter fans for a live global webcast during which she shared never before heard tidbits about the world of Harry Potter, including back story details, as well as her next writing project and Pottermore.
Scholastic has just announced a new Harry Potter Reading Club, which will be a collaboration between Scholastic, educators, libraries, after-school program coordinators and parents “who want to organize a book club with access to all the tools they need to host a Harry Potter Reading Club and celebrate the joy of reading. The first 10,000 registrants for the Club will receive a welcome kit including bookmarks, stickers and nametags.”
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Many students struggle with reading. One teacher is using the “Harry Potter” series to help build kids’ reading skills!
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Back in July of last year, we told you that the estate of British author Adrian Jacobs was suing Scholastic claiming that “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” was “substantially similar” to Jacobs’ 1987 book “The Adventures of Willy the Wizard.” Today, after a court dismissed the lawsuit, Scholastic released a statement.
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