Deathly Hallows Cover Art and Summaries Released! Brit Page Count Confirmed!
Update: We've updated our PotterCast, our Harry Potter podcast with a cover release show (called "Cover Art, or, Whose Soul Is It Anyway?"), going over all the new theories. Click here for details or just update your iTunes or press play on a Flash player!Continued...
"TODAY" To Reveal Cover Art
NBC's The Today Show has announced that they're about to have some big Potter news. Tune into your local channel to see the cover art revealed first hand!
Sketch from "Goblet of Fire" on Auction for Charity
A sketch by Harry Potter illustrator Mary GrandPre is one of two the artist donated for auction to benefit a center that helps those with cancer. A sketch made for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is up for auction tonight in Sarasota, Florida, and you can see this image here. The Herald TribuneContinued...
Audio Interview with Mary GrandPre
A podcast featuring a recent interview with US Harry Potter illustrator Mary GrandPre has now surfaced online. While this interview contains no new information about "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" (she says she doesn't know anything about it yet) the artist does say she would one day likeContinued...
Second New Cover for "Fantastic Beasts" Box Set
Last month we told you that there was a new cover on the box set of Harry's School Books, and now a second new piece of artwork for the set has emerged online. This artwork from Mary GrandPre, which you can see here in our galleries, shows a...troll :) This special box set contains Harry'sContinued...
New Artwork on "Quidditch Through the Ages" Box Set
The box set which contains Harry's Schoolbooks, or the special Harry Potter books "Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them," and "Quidditch Through the Ages" is sporting a new cover featuring some new artwork from illustrator Mary GrandePre. You can see this new artworkContinued...
Scholastic.com Updates Harry Potter Download Section
Scholastic has updated their Harry Potter site to include new downloads for Prisoner of Azkaban and Chamber of Secrets. These downloads are being added each week as part of the previously announced contest Scholastic is holding for children to win a Harry Potter Ipod package and more. To enter,Continued...
Official, Signed GrandPre Art for Sale
ArtInsights, a gallery which handles American Harry Potter illustrator Mary GrandPre's original art and Harry Potter limited editions, has released two pieces of new artwork, which Art Inisghts sent us and you can now see in our gallery:
Dueling WizardsEach piece is signed by Mary GrandPre;Continued...
Counting the Days
Mary GrandPré Original HP Illustrations Exhibit
The original works of U.S. Harry Potter illustrator Mary GrandPré will be featured through January 1, 2006 at Artinsights Gallery in Reston, Virginia, and will then become a permanent addition to the gallery's offerings. The gallery will donate a portion of the proceeds from salesContinued...
Full List of NYC Premiere Attendees and Info
The NYC premiere of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire will begin at 4pm on Saturday, November 12; stars will start arriving on the red carpet at 3pm. The screening is at the Ziegfeld Theater, 141 W 54th St. (between 6th and 7th Ave). The following are officially slated to attend:
Daniel Radcliffe
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Mary GrandPré at Sarasota Reading Festival
An ocean away from the premiere events in London, this week, Mary GrandPré appeared at the Sarasota Reading Festival, where she spoke about her illustrations for the Harry Potter series, as well as her work on her new book, Henry and Pawl and A Round Yellow Ball. TLC reader Roger sent us thisContinued...
Scholastic Updates Potter Screensaver with HBP Artwork
Scholastic , the US publishers of the Harry Potter books,recently updated their Harry Potter Screensaver to include some very nice Half-Blood Prince artwork and facts. To download, click here.
Mary GrandPre Talks HP Book Seven and More
Mary GrandPre, the illustrator of the US editions of the Harry Potter novels, has given a new interview where she talks Book Seven and more. In an interview with the Bradenton Herald, the artist says she will miss Harry when the books are finished, noting "It will be kind of like getting a kid offContinued...
2006 GrandPre Calendar Images
Reader Mary just sent us scans of the mini- and full-size 2006 GrandPre calendar, which is available via Amazon (small calendar, big calendar), or at our Cauldron Shop calendar page. There's a lot of new art, including some from OotP, so check it out - thank you Mary!
The Small Wall Calendar, 2006:
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Shhhhh. Potter books on the move!
Cincinatti's Enquirer reports on the secrecy surrounding the movement of copies of HBP from Scholastic to places like Amazon, that city's library system, and Mary GrandPré's workspace.
"We treat the (Harry Potter) books completely separate from other inventory," says KristinContinued...