New Harry Potter Book for the Holidays

J. K. Rowling is no fool. She’s releasing the latest book in the Harry Potter universe, The Tales of Beedle the Bard, today, just in time for the holidays.

Yeah, I’m a sucker and I’m going to buy it.

The book purports to be the collection of five tales mentioned in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, along with commentary by Professor Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, “who brings his unique wizard’s-eye [and dare I say, queer eye] perspective to the collection.”

The book is published by the Children’s High Level Group (CHLG), a charity co-founded in 2005 by Rowling and Emma Nicholson MEP. All net proceeds from the book’s sale will be donated to CHLG’s Children’s Voice campaign, which advocates for child rights across Europe, particularly in Eastern Europe. (This reminds me that royalties from that other great classic of British children’s literature, Peter Pan, go to the Great Ormond Street Hospital, a children’s hospital in London. Good to see Rowling following in such footsteps.)