This gorgeous volume is sure to please all, from Harry Potter neophytes to longtime fans.The illustrated editions of the Harry Potter novels have enchanted fans since Jim Kay’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone was released in 2015. Is this, one wonders, the sort of book found at Diagon Alley's Flourish and Blotts or in the Hogwarts library? Kay's illustrations, freshly re-envisioning the story, range from spot images to dramatic double page spreads, all pulsating with color and vitality. 'It's all that an old-fashioned book aficionado could wish for. This gorgeous volume is sure to please all, from Harry Potter neophytes to longtime fans.' - New York Times Book Review Praise for Jim Kay's illustrations:'I love seeing Jim Kay's interpretation of Harry Potter's world, and I feel honored and grateful that he continues to lend his talent to it.' - J.K. He now lives and works in Northamptonshire, England, with his wife. Jim has produced concept work for television and contributed to a group exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

Jim studied illustration at the University of Westminster and since graduating has worked in the archives of Tate Britain and the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. Jim Kay won the Kate Greenaway Medal in 2012 for his illustrations in A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness. Rowling lives in Scotland with her family. She supports a wide number of humanitarian causes through Volant, and is the founder of the international children’s care reform charity Lumos. Rowling has received many awards and honours for her writing, including for her detective series written under the name Robert Galbraith. Her latest children’s novel, The Christmas Pig, was published in 2021. In 2020, she returned to publishing for younger children with the fairy tale The Ickabog, the royalties for which she donated to her charitable trust, Volant, to help charities working to alleviate the social effects of the Covid 19 pandemic. Rowling wrote with playwright Jack Thorne and director John Tiffany. Harry’s story as a grown-up was continued in a stage play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which J.K. 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. 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.

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