Here's everything you need to know about JK Rowling's new book The Ickabog
It will be published in English in print, eBook and audiobook formats in November 2020, with other languages to follow.Rowling has invited people to submit their own drawings inspired by the book in anIn terms of enjoying the novel, she said: "I thinklends itself well to serialisation because it was written as a read-aloud book , but it’s suitable for 7-9 year olds to read to themselves.
"However, after the last Potter book I wanted to take a break from publishing, which ended up lasting five years. In that time I wrote The Casual Vacancy and Robert Galbraith wrote The Cuckoo’s Calling."At that point, the first draft of The Ickabog went up into the attic, where it’s remained for nearly a decade.
"A few weeks ago at dinner, I tentatively mooted the idea of getting The Ickabog down from the attic and publishing it for free, for children in lockdown. "My now teenagers were touchingly enthusiastic, so downstairs came the very dusty box, and for the last few weeks I’ve been immersed in a fictional world I thought I’d never enter again.
"As I worked to finish the book, I started reading chapters nightly to the family again. This was one of the most extraordinary experiences of my writing life, as The Ickabog’s first two readers told me what they remember from when they were tiny, and demanded the reinstatement of bits they’d particularly liked ."
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