J. K. Rowling

Summary: The Tales of Beedle the Bard, a Wizarding classic, first came to Muggle readers' attention in the book known as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Now, thanks to Hermione Granger's new translation from the ancient runes, we present this stunning edition with an introduction...

By dooyoo AG Let's face it, any spin-off from the uber-popular Harry Potter franchise is going to be a lucrative and sought after commodity - so J.K. Rowlings 'The Tales of Beedle the Bard' was destined for commercial success long before it hit the shops in ...

45. Black Hole by Charles Burns This was a really bizarre graphic novel. Nevertheless, Burns provides a good narrative and striking visuals. 46. The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J. K. Rowling translated by Hermione Granger, with commentary by Albus Dumbledore and notes by J. K. Rowling.

By dooyoo AG For a bargaintastic 50p you can pick up a copy of The Tales of Beedle the Bard from Sainsburys. As this carries an RRP of £6.99 its an ideal Christmas gift for any Harry Potter fan. Other mere mortals will be completely clueless as to why the heck ...

By dooyoo AG The Tales of Beedle the Bard is a book that is featured in the Harry Potter Series that plays an important part in bringing down the evil Lord Voldemort. It is a book of wizarding tales for young children, to teach them morals. Some of the ...

By Nicole This book is definitely for those who are Harry Potter fans and are dying because there aren’t any more books in the series. Luckily as well, there are like a million copies of this book within the library system of Wake County. So if you like Harry Potter you might wanna read this.

It still appears to be propped up by the books of JK Rowling, with The Tales of Beedle the Bard, second in The Times Bestseller list. Bryan Johnston, of Brewin Dolphin, said: "The company is confident recently concluded database and management licenses ...

It still appears to be propped up by the books of JK Rowling, with The Tales of Beedle the Bard, second in The Times Bestseller list. Bryan Johnston, of Brewin Dolphin, said: "The company is confident recently concluded database and management licenses ...

It still appears to be propped up by the books of JK Rowling, with The Tales of Beedle the Bard, second in The Times Bestseller list. Bryan Johnston, of Brewin Dolphin, said: "The company is confident recently concluded database and management licenses ...

By Katie If you are a Harry Potter fan, this book is for you. It contains five wizard fairytales, and notes made by the Professor Albus Dumbledore. Like with Muggle fairytales, they contain moral messages and words of wisdom to the budding wizard. They are short and thoroughly enjoyable. The notes mad...

Related articles from lotsobuchs.en (WordPress), Harry Potter's Page, lasrisas (WordPress).

By Rhymie “The Tales of Beedle the Bard, a Wizarding classic, first came to Muyggle readers’ attention in the book known as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Now, thanks to Hermione Granger’s new translation form the ancient runes, we present this stunning edition, with an introduction, note...

Related articles from bcfreviews (WordPress), Harry Potter's Page, lasrisas (WordPress).

By Fyrefly Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling - Must re-read this, so that I can read… The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J. K. Rowling - It has been *SO* hard sitting on this unread for the past week, even though I *know* I will enjoy it more if Deathly Hallows is fresh in my mind.

As J. K. Rowling’s “The Tales of Beedle the Bard” becomes the fastest selling book of 2008, Kausalya Santhanam visits the “The Elephant House” café in Edinburgh — where the famed Harry Potter series took shape

By Jessa Crispin This week's Guardian Digested Read: Tales of Beedle the Bard by J K Rowling. 1), (2): These terms are the copyright of JK Rowling and anyone who tries to explain them will be sent to Azkaban (3). Or, more likely, face an expensive legal action. HP is da JK's bitch. OK?

By Emily Commentary: This was a fun add-on to the series of Harry Potter. I really liked the commentary from Dumbledore, and the drawings by J.K. Rowling were fun. It was a little on the short side, but I liked how it expanded on the Harry Potter universe.

Related articles from lotsobuchs.en (WordPress), bcfreviews (WordPress), Harry Potter's Page.

By dooyoo AG a new opinion on www.dooyoo.co.uk about The Tales of Beedle the Bard - J. K. Rowling written by scotlandizdabest It seems approriate to review this as it has only been released TODAY (Thursday 4th December 2008) and I would love to be the first to review this amazing book! P.S. I am the biggest Harry...

Related articles from squoy.typepad.com, French Word and more.

By (AFP) AFP) - The first book since the conclusion of the Harry Potter saga is sure to be a Christmas bestseller. Author J. K. Rowling unveils her latest offering from the Hogwarts franchise The Tales of Beedle the Bard at Scotlands national library. Duration: 01:51(AFP)

By Jessica Schneider Reuters reports that J. K Rowling has recently released a new book titled  "The Tales of Beedle the Bard.”

By Jennifer Jordan The Harry Potter author is keen to help orphans, a cause close to almost every parent's heart, and she's putting some serious money into it, too. Rowling's newest title, The Tales Of Beedle The Bard, which is a spin-off from the Harry Potter series, is sure to make a ton of money. Rowling is cou...

Coming out early next month is the latest book from J. K. Rowling. The concept is that The Tales of Beedle The Bard is reproduction of a collection of Wizard fairy tales that was part of the collection of books that Professor Dumbledore ...

Related articles from PR Inside (Pressemitteilung).

Altogether, this is an essential addition to our store of knowledge about the world and the magic that J. K. Rowling has created, and a book every true Harry Potter fan will want to have for their shelves. ...

Single volume of five fairy tales by J K Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard, handwritten and illustrated on translucent vellum, bound in leather and covered with silver and jewels, sells for $3.97 million at auction at Sotheby's in London; winning bidder is fine-art dealer Hazlitt Goo...

We previously reported that Scholastic had announced The Tales of Beedle the Bard would be available for public sale December 4. Scholastic have now released a short summary regarding the book. Proceeds from The Tales of Beedle the Bard will go directly to Children's High Level Group, a ch...

Related articles from lotsobuchs.en (WordPress), bcfreviews (WordPress), lasrisas (WordPress).

By Laura T. Ryan Colman Getty/Children's High Level GroupHarry Potter creator J.K. Rowling chose today, her 43rd birthday, to announce the publication of another book from the wizarding world, "The Tales of Beedle the Bard," in December.American poet and novelist Kim Addonizio (1954), Scottish... Colma...

PR-inside.com) LONDON (AP) - Wizard news, Harry Potter fans: A book of fairy tales written and illustrated by J.K. Rowling is to be published for charity. A British charity said Thursday it hopes to raise 4 million pounds (US$8 million) through sales of «The Tales of Beedle the Bard.» Rowling c...

Related articles from The Geek Review.

There was understandable disappointment among Harry Potter fans when only one copy of “The Tales of Beedle the Bard” was offered to the public last December. I am therefore delighted to announce that, thanks to the generous support of Bloomsbury, Scholastic and Amazon (who bought the ha...

The Leaky Lounge is wrapping up its latest Reading Group readings of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" and is preparing for their next round of book discussions. On May 15th, sorting will commence once again and Lounge members will be able to join one of our many reading group homes a...

This week, Warner Bros. released the first official photo from the upcoming "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" film. The image, which you can see right here in our Image Galleries, shows Dan Radcliffe (Harry Potter) holding what appears to be his Potions book and the Marauders Map. La...

No chance...until they buy the rights. But all this Potter nonsense will be done by the summer. /sarcasm. Of course they're going to publish this. Maybe Rowling will want some scratch, but they're only expense will be the marketing. They are going to sell a shitload of Kindles with this.

Wait! wait wait....are you really comparing JK Rowling to DaVinci?

damn, I've been found out. I knew my illiteracy would catch up with me some day. I mean heaven forbid that someone who can read is not going ape shit over a particular book series. because we all know that Harry Potter is undoubtedly the best series of books ever written. well I must be off I have qui...

King and Clancy aren't nearly AS mass-appeal because you need to be a certain age - at least 15 for either, I'd say - to really appreciate their stuff. What makes Rowling different than both is that her _first novel_ became this huge. King writes top bestsellers every time nowadays, but it too...

Amazon and Rowling just gave nearly 4 million bucks to charity. What did you do?

Whoever wrote that amazon.com page obviously had the biggest boner of their life. Give me a break, it's a fuckin' children's book written by an author whos most notable piece of literary work is Harry Potter. Jesus consumerism pisses me off.

Will it be valuable 10 years from now when Harry Potter is a distant memory? Not a chance.

It's not about the words themselves. It's about the fact that the whole thing was written and illustrated by Rowling herself. Novelty? Yes. Immensely valuable? Of course. Whether you like it or not, her stuff is the hottest stuff out there.

What makes Shakespeare more valuable than JK Rowling? Her writing is more contemporary and can be related to by more people than can Shakespeare. Now ... this is NOT me saying that $4 million isn't too much for a book ... because it is.

The question can also be turned on you. What have you done lately? Ask yourself that. Furthermore I was talking about Amazon.com. That was a publicity stunt on their part, to attract attention to their store. I never said anything about Rowling. Learn to read troglodyte.

A book hand-written by the author of 6 of the top 20 best selling books of all time? Say what you want about the literary value of the Harry Potter books, but this particular work is certainly worth a small fortune.

And there was *free shipping*. How could she be pissed?

These additions are for charity - maybe someday they'll be released as e-books or somesuch. Wouldn't want any spoilers then.

If you were one of the other 6 people who presumably paid a metric shit-ton for it... you'd probably wanna be warned of spoilers. Even if the other millions of people who read the review would care less.

I've never been interested in the Harry Potter stories and have never even seen any of the movies, but this book looks really cool and certainly stands out in a day and age when much of everything is mass-produced and impersonal. It's also mighty wide of Rowling to donate all of the proceeds t...

I'm pretty sure he knew this and had no alternative; ie, flash or other strong lights are probably not allowed on an item displayed at Sotheby's.

Amusing how the Amazon review warns of spoilers as though we'd ever get the chance to read the 4 million dollar book.

Unless she has the good sense to transfer the copyright to a holding corporation, which can then renew it indefinitely.

Well, after Rowling dies, they'll only have to wait 70 years before they can publish it...

My god what a scam, what a wonderful wonderful scam. And we all wish we had come up with this Harry Potter nonsense before JK rowlin did. sigh.

She didn't get any money for any of the handwritten books. Not that she needs it, of course. I think she makes something like 230.00 a minute. (source: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/6/story.cfm?c_id=6&ObjectID=10396306)

It depends entirely on how lazy she was about it and on whether or not she's an immortal from the dawn of time.

Yes, because you know, Rowling isn't already one of the richest and most famous women in the world. She's obviously trying to catch up with Oprah.

All proceeds are being donated to charity. She's using her popularity and talent to help "institutionalized children"! Who knows, she could be helping Britney's kids in the future.

I agree, who the fuck cares, but I don't think Rowling can be accusing of "being famous only for being famous", unlike Paris Hilton and the current Britney. She did manage to sell twenty bajillion books this year alone.

She's also, you know, a good writer. As in she tells a good story. And one that a whole shitload of people can identify with.

I think that she's well known for a couple of reasons. One, in a time when TV has decimated the group of people who read books, especially among children, she's managed to interest a great many people in reading. Second, she makes for a nice "rags-to-riches" story -- she was a single mother who...

Yes, but there are lots of good writers out there (albeit perhaps with less appeal). I like [George R.R. Martin's fantasy](https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire), for instance. There are others with perhaps more mass appeal than Rowling -- Stephen K...

J.K. Rowling's handwritten The Tales of Beedle the Bard was auctioned today. The book was expected to sell at around $100,000, but instead auctioned at $3.98 million (1.95 million pounds)! All proceeds will go to The Children's Voice, a charity that J.K. Rowling co-founded. There were a total of...

By allucha A copy of The Tales of Beedle the Bard, first mentioned in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows has sold at auction for almost £2,000,000. The book, which is a collection of wizard fairy tales, was expected to sell for £50,000, but the rare version sold for much more!

By Kristin The Leaky Cauldron also has scanned pictures from the auction program at it’s website here. At this link you can see some of the illustrations from the book, The Tales of Beedle the Bard, the companion to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. From Sotheby’s website: Details of the manuscrip...

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" a New York Times Notable Book of the Year

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" is in production in London, England and will be released in theaters November of 2008. More Big News... New Interview with J.K. Rowling for Release of Dutch Edition of "Deathly Hallows" Rumor Alert: Halloween and Holiday Plans Afoot for Harry Potter The...

By griffin_girl Quote: One of seven specially-made copies. All other copies are to be given by the author to those most intimately involved with the phenomenally successful series. A limitation note explains "Six of these books have been given to those most closely connected to the Harry Potter books dur...

J.K. Rowling has completed a set of handwritten fairy tales she mentioned in her last book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. There will be just seven volumes of The Tales of Beedle the Bard and they will not be published. Take that, fans!