I have always done drawing and making picture books, from a very young age. I studied illustration at Glasgow School of Art. I love all sorts of illustrators, and I am especially drawn to vintage children’s books that use limited colours, such as those by Roger Duvoisin and Nathalie Parain. This dazzling gift book brings together beloved characters, unforgettable moments and iconic locations from Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone all the way through to The Deathly Hallows. It’s the ultimate magical miscellany, filled with facts and fun about the wizarding world, beautifully catalogued and brilliantly explored. Rowling was born to Peter James Rowling, a Rolls-Royce aircraft engineer, and Anne Rowling (née Volant), on 31 July 1965 in Yate, Gloucestershire, England, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Bristol. Her mother Anne was half-French and half-Scottish. Her parents first met on a train departing from King's Cross Station bound for Arbroath in 1964. They married on 14 March 1965. Her mother's maternal grandfather, Dugald Campbell, was born in Lamlash on the Isle of Arran. Her mother's paternal grandfather, Louis Volant, was awarded the Croix de Guerre for exceptional bravery in defending the village of Courcelles-le-Comte during the First World War. And to think, this is just a small preview of what is to come. We hope you are as excited about this treasure trove of wizarding delights as we are.

Co mě šíleně baví, tak jsou rozkládací strany, díky kterým dostanete úplná panoramata Bradavic a okolí nebo třeba Zapovězeného lesa.Saznaćete više o Banditovoj mapi i svim profesorima i predmetima, timovima, klubovima a meni jedan od najslasnijih momenata staje u Hogvortsku biblioteku. Some of the outfits were very easy to draw because the descriptions are quite detailed and evocative, such as Professor Trelawney’s or Umbridge’s. Others in my mind had been influenced by the films, so I had to really remember how I used to imagine them before the films were made, such as Hermione’s dress at the Yule Ball. At first, I set myself the challenge to make this entire spread using just three colours, but it soon became apparent I had to be more truthful to certain items of clothing, such as Ron’s maroon jumper. I loved drawing Dobby’s section on this. It was all a lot of fun to draw, actually! Uniquely rooted in J.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. It felt like a world I know so well, it came very naturally to delve into it. The hardest thing was trying to make everything look magical, especially if it was just something seemingly normal, like the tea trolley Hogwarts Express. 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. Petrifyingly perfect.

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su mi detaljni opisi kuća u Hogvortsu u odeljku poziva u Hogvorts. Na samom početku tog poglavlja postoje stranice koje otvarate i pred očima vam se nalazi dvorac sa potpunom mapom objekata vešto iscrtanom pa lako stičete orijentaciju gde se nalazi stadion za kvidič, Hogsmid, Vrišteća koliba i mnogo šta drugo u odnosu na sam zamak. Pročitaćete istorijat šešira koji svrstava u kuće i detalje o ceremoniji razvrstavanja kao i sitnice o svakoj kući-glavne osobine koje odlučuju da li toj kući pripadate, osnivače, duh, boje, relikvije , element i zver. Věřím, že jste tuhle nádhernou encyklopedii zaznamenali a doufám, že pokud ji ještě nemáte doma, najdete ji pod stromečkem. da su mi bili potrebni dani usresređenosti na ovu lepotu, za razliku od knjiga koje se mogu pročitati za par sati. Ovo delo zahteva punu pažnju i vreme zato što ima jako mnogo informacija koje prati širok dijapazon ilustracia u najsitnijim detaljima. Bloomsbury and Scholastic have announced a new official companion book to the Harry Potter series. Coming on October 10, 2023, The Harry Potter Wizarding Almanac is a richly illustrated compilation of information from the wizarding world, described on its cover as “the ultimate compendium of wizarding lists, charts, maps and all things magical!” I am a huge fan of the Harry Potter books, and it wasn’t a hard decision to say yes to this one! I was amazed to be asked to show my own vision of this incredible world.

Although she writes under the pen name J.K. Rowling, pronounced like rolling, her name when her first Harry Potter book was published was simply Joanne Rowling. Anticipating that the target audience of young boys might not want to read a book written by a woman, her publishers demanded that she use two initials, rather than her full name. As she had no middle name, she chose K as the second initial of her pen name, from her paternal grandmother Kathleen Ada Bulgen Rowling. She calls herself Jo and has said, "No one ever called me 'Joanne' when I was young, unless they were angry." Following her marriage, she has sometimes used the name Joanne Murray when conducting personal business. During the Leveson Inquiry she gave evidence under the name of Joanne Kathleen Rowling. In a 2012 interview, Rowling noted that she no longer cared that people pronounced her name incorrectly. The sweets, 100%. It has probably scratched the itch of my entire childhood dreams to be able to illustrate the magical sweets in Harry Potter. How did you approach illustrating your sections of the book? Was illustrating the wizarding world difficult?

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I probably most identify with Ron, but I also enjoy the bits with characters you’re supposed to hate, like Aunt Marge and Umbridge. Tu su ,na kraju i kućne štetočine, zmajevi, projekti i čuveni Hagridovi ljubimci pa zatim još jedno otvaranje stranica knjige koje čine mapu Začarane šume do samih Fantastičnih zveri i Sovine pošte.