For centuries, The Tales of Beedle the Bard have been treasured bedtime reading in wizarding households everywhere. Full of magic and trickery, these classic stories both entertain and instruct, remaining just as captivating to young wizards today as they were when Beedle first put quill to parchment back in the fifteenth century. Five tales make up the collection: Harry Potter fans will already know ‘The Tale of the Three Brothers’ from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, while ‘The Fountain of Fair Fortune’, ‘The Warlock’s Hairy Heart’, ‘The Wizard and the Hopping Pot’ and ‘Babbitty Rabbitty and her Cackling Stump’ complete the set. These narrative gems come with explanatory notes from Professor Albus Dumbledore (included by kind permission of the Hogwarts Headmaster’s archive), whose illuminating commentary reveals them as far more than simple moral tales – and destined to make Babbitty Rabbitty and the slug-belching Hopping Pot every bit as familiar to Muggles as Snow White and Cinderella. This edition of these much loved wizarding fairy tales pairs J.K. Rowling’s original text with gorgeous jacket art by Jonny Duddle and line illustrations throughout by Tomislav Tomic. The Tales of Beedle the Bard is published in aid of the Lumos (link to wearelumos.org), an international children’s charity (registered charity number 1112575) founded in 2005 by J.K Rowling. Lumos works to end the institutionalisation of children, a harmful practice affecting up to eight million disadvantaged children around the world who live in institutions and orphanages – many placed there as a result of poverty, disability, disease, discrimination and conflict, with very few being genuine orphans. Lumos works to reunite children with their families, promote family-based care alternatives, and help authorities reform their systems and close down institutions and orphanages.
ISBN 13: 9781408883099
Author: J.K. Rowling
