EW has a brief article about the kids’ and adults’ covers that will be on the front of many of the non-US releases, and notes that: Scholastic could wrap the tome in discarded newsprint and it would still sell out its hardcover print run of 8.5 million copies.

This afternoon, TLC spoke with a representative for Mary GrandPre (who is currently on the west coast of the US on a book tour for work in Plum) about Mary’s work on OoTP. Mary has already finished all her art for Book 5, including the front cover, which was made public today, the back cover, …read more!

Thank you to our friends at BBC, who sent us this large image of the The American Cover, which is also in their coverage of the covers. It’s very…different. Harry’s grown quite a bit over the summer, hasn’t he! It’s also spooky and gives us very little to wonder about plot-wise compared to the other …read more!

For larger images of the covers than Bloomsbury has on their site, as well as details about the artists and more news later on today – when Scholastic releases the American cover – check out the ever-reliable CBBC’s site. Worthy of note about the covers: This is the first time Harry does not appear on …read more!

Bloomsbury seems to have posted the cover for the kids’ and adults’ versions of OoTP. Check them out!

Phew! Our donor lists are complete. If there’s a mistake, please contact us and we will fix it. ALSO – Book Aid International has published a special report on where all £14,202.93 of Leaky’s readers’ contributions went, so be sure to head over there and check it out! Thank you all, again, because I haven’t …read more!

Thanks Caitlin, for pointing us to this press release confirming that Listening Library will record book five for release in Canada and America on June 21, along with the books. LL did the recordings for the other four books, and we are waiting on confirmation that Jim Dale will once again provide the voice. We’ll …read more!

Emma Watson won the AOL Moviegoer Award for Best Supporting Actress.

The word Muggle has been added to the Oxford English Dictionary. The listing (according to TLC reader George, who sent us the link) reads as follows: In the fiction of J. K. Rowling: a person who possesses no magical powers. Hence in allusive and extended uses: a person who lacks a particular skill or skills, …read more!

A press release posted on Business Wire provides details on Unlock the Chamber of Secrets, an “online sweepstakes and movie scene trading card competition available to fans in the United States and other select countries beginning March 28.”