the tales of beedle the bard by jk rowling

Her mother's maternal grandfather, Dugald Campbell, was born in Lamlash on the Isle of Arran. Her parents first met on a train departing from King's Cross Station bound for Arbroath in 1964. Her mother Anne was half-French and half-Scottish. 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. In a 2012 interview, Rowling noted that she no longer cared that people pronounced her name incorrectly.

During the Leveson Inquiry she gave evidence under the name of Joanne Kathleen 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. 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. 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. Rowling, pronounced like rolling, her name when her first Harry Potter book was published was simply Joanne Rowling. Published the following year, the book has helped raised money for her international children’s charity Lumos ever since.įor more information about The Tales of Beedle The Bard audio edition go to she writes under the pen name J.K. Rowling as a limited edition of only seven copies, one of which was sold at auction in 2007 in aid of charity. The Tales of Beedle the Bard was originally handwritten and illustrated by J.K. His illuminating thoughts reveal the stories to be much more than simple moral tales These funny and captivating tales are accompanied by explanatory notes from Professor Albus Dumbledore (narrated by Jude Law). Within this collection of fables was the origin story of the Deathly Hallows, ‘ The Tale of the Three Brothers’, which taught Harry about the three most powerful objects in the wizarding world. The Tales of Beedle the Bard was first referenced in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows as the fictional fairy tales all wizarding children grew up with. Rowling’s international children’s charity Lumos. Rowling’s Hogwarts Library book The Tales of Beedle the Bard: the first time the book has been brought to life in audio, which is also supporting J.K. Stars from the Wizarding World including Jude Law, Warwick Davis, Noma Dumezweni, Jason Isaacs, Evanna Lynch, Sally Mortemore and Bonnie Wright have joined forces to record individual stories from J.K.

The tales of beedle the bard by jk rowling