Bloomsbury to Publish Illustrated Versions of Harry Potter Books
BooksFebruary 23, 2012, 12:32 PM
In an Associated Press story about the new adult J.K. Rowling book, Bloomsbury has revealed future plans for the Harry Potter novels:
"...we intend to publish illustrated editions of all seven
Harry Potter books in a rolling program from 2013 onwards in addition to
our partnership on e-books with the Pottermore website," the publisher
said in a statement. In the U.S., Scholastic spokeswoman Kyle Good noted
that Scholastic didn't publish adult books.
"We will continue to publish her children's books in the U.S.," Good said Thursday.
The Harry Potter books will remain with Bloomsbury and Scholastic in Britain and the U.S., respectively.(Thanks to our friends at Hypable for pointing out that it is Bloomsbury, not Scholastic, publishing the new editions!)
I love Mary GrandPre’s artwork, but it will be interesting to see what they come up with. I agree with moe miron, though – graphic novels would be a travesty! Something along the lines of Neil Gaiman’s ‘Stardust,’ with lots of beautiful color plates but not comic-book-type illustrations on every page, would be nice.