J.K. Rowling to Write Novel for Grown Ups

We don’t know when or where or what, we only do know that it will happen and, when it does, we don’t need to be told that the world will watch. And closely.J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series and one of the wealthiest women in the world, has announced that she’s signed a deal with Little, Brown for publication in the United Kingdom and the United States. UK publisher David Shelley

Quidditch, Anyone?

As any Harry Potter fan will tell you, Quidditch is just one of the wondrous things author J.K. Rowling devised for her magical books. But unlike many of those things, Quidditch, with its quaffles and snitches, has been brought to life. The Guardian brings us a glimpse of a match at Oxford:To onlookers it may have seemed outlandish and bizarre, but to these mostly teenage Oxford students it was

Children’s Books Move Successfully into the Real World

With Pottermore, the new online community based on the world of Harry Potter, preparing to go into beta, The Guardian looks at how children’s books can often lend themselves to leaching into the real world:Pottermore may be the most ambitious attempt to extend the legacy of a children's book, but it's just the logical technological extension of a process that began when print ceased to be the