Beedle the Bard is here!

The latest Harry Potter offering The Tales of Beedle the Bard is only a slim volume and is a collection of fairy tales that were mentioned in the final Harry Potter book as having been left to Hermione by headmaster Albus Dumbledore. The volume contained clues that helped in the final mission to destroy Lord Voldemort.

Copies of the book in the library will be slightly less impressive than this volume (photo courtesy of abc.com.au) which was one of the seven originally handwritten by author JK Rowling for charity. She said that it was demand from Harry Potter fans that prompted her to publish her latest work. Proceeds from the collection of fairy tales, which has a global print run of 7.5 million copies, will go to a charity for vulnerable children in Eastern Europe co-founded by Rowling.

The full Reuters article can be read here http://www.stuff.co.nz/4783465a4501.html. As with all our Harry Potter books on publication, there is a waiting list but if you click on the title of the book in the first line, this will take you to our catalogue and you can put in a request for yourself, or simply ask next time you are in the library.