We’ve been uploading the Harry Potter Children’s Edition covers from Bloomsbury as we’ve been receiving them and the latest one just hit our mailbox, so we thought we’d get it straight to you!
For those who don’t know, these Children’s Editions are pretty much the original book but with new art, a bigger font, slightly easier to read layout and a few extra bits that have been taken from the Pottermore website (little tidbits from J.K. such as profiles and trivia we guess, but we are not 100% sure yet). The publisher think it is time that we – siblings or parents – pass the book onto the next generation and invite them to experience the magic of Harry Potter.
Like all the others books the cover is undeniably pretty, but I am again surprised by the chosen image. This makes two of the covers now to have a pretty big spoiler. The basilisk on the second book’s cover (which doesn’t appear until the final chapters) and Harry finally casting the Patronus on the third (which he struggles to do throughout the majority of the book). I’m kind of nervous book 6 *spoiler* will have a dead Dumbledore on the cover *spoiler* or something… I guess the presumption by the artist is that ‘everyone has seen Harry Potter!’, but that doesn’t fit with the ‘passing the magic on’ to the next generation slogan that the publisher have been using to promote the books for this campaign, does it?.
Here are the other two incase you missed ’em:
Anyway, for those interested all seven new editions will be published on 1st September 2014 and will also be exclusively available in eBook format at the Pottermore Shop.
What do you guys think?
Jennie Ivins
Excellent scene choice. This was one of the most pivotal moments of the entire series, when you think of it.
Beautiful art! But I agree with you about the spoilerly images. Kind of ruins the magic if you know what’s going to happen.
Exactly! I would love to have this on my shelf, but I would be afraid my kids might see it and be spoiled. I think that constitutes as a major spoiler. I, for one, did not see that patronis belonging to Harry first read through.
That’s interesting. I hadn’t really thought about it like that because I was just enjoying the awesome art, but now you come to bring it up, I think I agree. Luckily we have the earlier editions to pass on to the kids.