Rowling has received many awards and honours for her writing, including the OBE and Companion of Honour, the Hans Christian Andersen Award and a Blue Peter Gold Badge. Weitong uses a soft, rich and unusual palette to evoke simmering potion fumes and shimmering streams of magic.

The Harry Potter Wizarding Almanac also features an astonishing level of detail that is sure to surprise and fascinate lifelong fans. This dazzling gift book brings together beloved characters, unforgettable moments and iconic locations from the seven Harry Potter novels. It’s the ultimate magical miscellany, filled with facts and fun about the wizarding world, beautifully catalogued and brilliantly explored. You can also explore the rest of Hogwarts at Hallowe’en here too, from the student’s feast in the Great Hall to all the work the house-elves get up to in the kitchens to make this night extra special – with everything finished off with some floating pumpkins and fluttering bats. Special shoutouts to Charm Your Own Cheese and The Handbook of Hippogriff Psychology – just a few tomes we are immensely curious to know more about.In this spread, again, illustrated brilliantly by Peter Goes – you can explore all the different printed works that we spot during Harry’s studies. As illustrated by Levi Pinfold, you can take a look at these new illustrative depictions of some of your favourite members, but also some of the lesser-known members of the team that perhaps you might not have seen brought to life before. She supports a wide number of humanitarian causes through Volant, and is the founder of the international children's care reform charity Lumos. After the idea for Harry Potter came to her on a delayed train journey in 1990, she plotted out and started writing the series of seven books and the first, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone , was published in the UK in 1997.

We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. On this spread, illustrator Peter Goes explores the magical mishaps of the wizarding world, of which there are many. It touches on so many topics in the lore and there is something in here for every Harry Potter fan, no matter their age.And in this video here, the Bloomsbury team explored some of those extra magical details hidden throughout the book with some eagle-eyed fans! To accompany the series, she wrote three short companion volumes for charity, including Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them , which went on to inspire a new series of films featuring Magizoologist Newt Scamander. Whisk yourself away to Harry Potter’s wizarding world with this Whiz-bang of an illustrated companion. ROWLING is the author of the enduringly popular, era-defining Harry Potter seven-book series, which have sold over 600 million copies in 85 languages, been listened to as audiobooks for over one billion hours and made into eight smash hit movies.

Interactive Elements**: The pull-out maps, mini-booklets, and hidden notes add an interactive dimension that makes this book more than just a read; it's an experience. Discover magical places, study wandlore, encounter fantastic beasts and find out about the witches and wizards who lived. Harry's story as a grown-up was continued in a stage play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child , which J. Whisk yourself away to Harry Potter's wizarding world with this Whiz-bang of an illustrated companion.Joyfully illustrated throughout in full color by seven stunning artists and tingling with astonishing details to spot on every page, this is the ideal introduction to the Harry Potter stories for new readers and sure to surprise and fascinate lifelong fans.

And finally, seeing as it’s nearly Hallowe’en… we must give some kudos to this spooky spread from illustrator Tomislav Tomic, who has breathed some life into Nearly Headless Nick’s Deathday Party. No (tomb)stone has been left unturned here, with all of the ghostly guests in full attendance, from The Headless Hunt to Nick himself! K. Rowling’s original writing, this must-have companion is a visual compendium of charts, cross-sections and magical particulars, collecting together enchanted objects, fabulous foodstuffs, curious plants and fantastic beasts from the wizarding world. You can see Crookshanks, peering in from the top hand corner, perhaps on the lookout for a certain rat with a missing digit?

On this gorgeously green Herbology page illustrated by Weitong Mai you can spot a little Bowtruckle in the corner – presumably keeping an eye on things.