Harry Potter gets all-new covers for paperback anniversary editions
Harry Potter鈥檚 getting a makeover for his fifteenth birthday.
Scholastic announced that to celebrate the phenomenally popular series鈥� fifteenth anniversary, the Harry Potter series would receive all-new covers on new trade paperback editions, which will be released in September 2013.
The publisher released the new 鈥淪orcerer鈥� cover as a preview, which you can check out above and to the side.
Artist Kazu Kibuishi, who illustrated the new covers, called those done by artist Mary GrandPr茅 鈥渇antastic and iconic.鈥� GrandPr茅 also drew the pictures that appeared at the beginning of each chapter.
鈥淲hen I was asked to submit samples, I initially hesitated because I didn't want to see them reinterpreted!鈥� Kibuishi, who is the author and illustrator for the Amulet graphic novel children鈥檚 series, said in a statement.聽鈥淗owever, I felt that if I were to handle the project, I could bring something to it that many other designers and illustrators probably couldn't, and that was that I was also a writer of my own series of middle grade fiction.鈥� Kibuishi told he was inspired by novels by Charles Dickens when drawing the first cover.
The only details Scholastic revealed about the other new covers is that each will 鈥渄epict a distinctive and memorable moment鈥� from the book, according to the press release.
The novels will be released as stand-alone editions and compiled in a box set. That set will be followed in November by a boxed set of the books known together as the Hogwarts Library series, which consists of the titles 鈥淨uidditch Through the Ages,鈥� 鈥淭he Tales of Beedle the Bard,鈥� and 鈥淔antastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,鈥� all written by J.K. Rowling. 鈥淨uidditch鈥� and 鈥淏easts鈥� were originally mentioned in the Potter series as textbooks assigned to Harry and his friends, while 鈥淏eedle鈥� played a crucial part in unraveling a riddle in the seventh and final book. Proceeds from the sales of the Hogwarts Library will go to the UK charities Comic Relief and Lumos, the latter of which was founded by Rowling to prevent children being institutionalized.
GrandPr茅鈥檚 covers will still appear on the hardcover editions as well as mass-market paperback versions.
